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He has a lot of good points but I can't help but find irony in companies like Aspen and Patagonia being part of the problem. How many people travel to a tourist
by brikym 2y ago
He has a lot of good points but I can't help but find irony in companies like Aspen and Patagonia being part of the problem. How many people travel to a tourist destination without flying or driving a car? How many of Patagonia's rain jackets are covered in forever chemicals like PFAS?
The world will have to be drastically different to solve these problems. A carbon tax is the way to do it since offsets are often plainly fraudulent. We have a long way to go. Cars should be as efficient as possible if not replaced by rail. Food packaging ought to be reusable and standardized like shipping containers or milk bottles way back in the day. People would have to give up on their manicured chemical water intensive artificially green lawns and how embarrassing that would be. All appliances, devices and vehicles should be repairable. The way to drive this would be a prepaid tax to account for the costs of the pollution. It would have to be a high enough tax that people get angry about their standard of living changing so it won't happen under democratic politics in such an individualistic society. Everyone has to have their over sized car to signal wealth to their neighbour. But at least if there were regulations we would all be in it together and find more efficient ways to peacock to our neighbours.
- llamaimperative 2y agohttps://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/pfas.html https://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/pfas.html
- mandmandam 2y ago> How many people travel to a tourist destination without flying or driving a car? That point was acknowledged in the second paragraph of the article. "His career led him to a tough lesson about his field: it’s a failure that perpetuates the very systems driving global warming". > How many of Patagonia's rain jackets are covered in forever chemicals like PFAS? From this year on, none of them (as linked in the policy above).
- theelous3 2y agoAs of a few months ago, patagonia don't use pfas. https://eu.patagonia.com/ie/en/our-footprint/pfas.html https://eu.patagonia.com/ie/en/our-footprint/pfas.html
- renjimen 2y agoI agree, but most of us here live in a democracy, and people get mad when their short term standard of living is impacted without a basic understanding of how their long term standard of living is improved. So this is a pipe dream until people are mad about climate change. And people are by and large not mad about it.
- renjimen 2y agoThe real question is why is so little of our media about climate change? Even reporting on extreme weather typically fails to mention climate change as a contributing factor in most news outlets.