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You could sort your yogurt pots in to separate boxes from now until the end of days... It still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness

You could sort your yogurt pots in to separate boxes from now until the end of days... It still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference. We as a species aren't going to solve the macro issue unfortunately. The best thing you can do is think local and minimise the direct impact on yourself. I'd suggest starting by buying a house on a hill.

gruez 3y ago
> You could sort your yogurt pots in to separate boxes from now until the end of days... It still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference. I find this type of attitude baffling. Of course the actions of an individual wouldn't be able to offset the emissions of a private jet or whatever, but that's not a reason to not take individual action. Your individual actions can't solve global warming because global warming isn't caused by one person driving their car to work, or even one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference. It's caused because there's hundreds of million of people driving their car to work. "You can [insert some sort of lifestyle change to reduce carbon emissions] but it still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference" is a great way to ensure hundreds of Americans continue to drive SUVs to work, buy meat at the grocery store, and take their annual trans-US/atlantic flight, all of which adds up to 5 billion tons of co2 produced per year.
autoexec 3y ago
> You could sort your yogurt pots in to separate boxes from now until the end of days... It still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference. I agree, this isn't a problem that can be solved by a single person's actions. We need large scale solutions, but I'd still caution against the kind of thinking that lets you fool yourself into thinking that your own actions don't have any impact. I hear that sort of argument from people who say "who cares if I throw my trash directly into the ocean or dump my motor oil down the drain! Sure, it's bad but it's nothing compared to the carbon footprint of blah blah blah" yet we've seen how a large number of people acting selfishly in small ways leads to large problems too. I'm not saying you're doing this personally, but it's one thing to call out the unnecessary waste of others, and another to use the actions of others to justify being a smaller part of the problem.

gruez 3y ago

> You could sort your yogurt pots in to separate boxes from now until the end of days... It still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference. I find this type of attitude baffling. Of course the actions of an individual wouldn't be able to offset the emissions of a private jet or whatever, but that's not a reason to not take individual action. Your individual actions can't solve global warming because global warming isn't caused by one person driving their car to work, or even one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference. It's caused because there's hundreds of million of people driving their car to work. "You can [insert some sort of lifestyle change to reduce carbon emissions] but it still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference" is a great way to ensure hundreds of Americans continue to drive SUVs to work, buy meat at the grocery store, and take their annual trans-US/atlantic flight, all of which adds up to 5 billion tons of co2 produced per year.

autoexec 3y ago

> You could sort your yogurt pots in to separate boxes from now until the end of days... It still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference. I agree, this isn't a problem that can be solved by a single person's actions. We need large scale solutions, but I'd still caution against the kind of thinking that lets you fool yourself into thinking that your own actions don't have any impact. I hear that sort of argument from people who say "who cares if I throw my trash directly into the ocean or dump my motor oil down the drain! Sure, it's bad but it's nothing compared to the carbon footprint of blah blah blah" yet we've seen how a large number of people acting selfishly in small ways leads to large problems too. I'm not saying you're doing this personally, but it's one thing to call out the unnecessary waste of others, and another to use the actions of others to justify being a smaller part of the problem.