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You seem to think that everything you do requires buying a commercial product, with no alternatives. That is the success of the capitalist advertising industry.
by alt227 2y ago
You seem to think that everything you do requires buying a commercial product, with no alternatives. That is the success of the capitalist advertising industry.
It really isnt as hard as you think to live a low impact life without buying more stuff to help you do it.
Personally I walk or cycle to the store, and buy toothpaste that is made from zero chemicals and is packaged in 100% recycled materials.
If you want to go further than that, then before companies started convincing people that they needed to buy toothpaste, people used crushed charcoal from their fires alonog with mint leaves for freshness. Free, no transportation required, and just as effective, if not more so.
I am very happy to subscribe to this kind of lifestyle in order to reduce human impact on a global scale. Are you?
- fragmede 2y agoI try and live a low impact lifestyle. I reuse, drive an old ICE car sparingly, I buy more expensive stuff that lasts instead of cheaper disposable stuff when I can, I recycle, I compost. I'm just not pretentious about it, and have no illusions about where my food comes from.
- alt227 2y ago> Who doesn't want their Amazon packages delivered sooner? If I could get my packages today, instead of two days later, and there's just this humming noise outside because of it? > I try and live a low impact lifestyle Personally I would say that these 2 statements contradict each other.
- fragmede 2y agoI'm not the one who can't handle the fact that advancements in medicine that have happened since Aristotle come hand in hand with the industrial revolution and capitalism.
- alt227 2y agoNo you are the one denying that the majority of our knowledge of the human anamtomy came from before that period, and that it was entirely possible without corporations delivering us truckloads of stuff from warehouses to make it happen. Feel free to educate yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anatomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anatomy > I'm not the one who can't handle Now that you have turned into making this personal, I will exit. Feel free to reply with whatever makes you feel best.
- fragmede 2y agoWhere did I say that Aristotle wasn't a foundational scientist? it's just that we're not at CRISPR and mRNA vaccines without the rest of modern society.
- Symbiote 2y agoYou live a low impact lifestyle, but the idea of walking to a shop didn't occur?
- fragmede 2y agodid it not occur, or is it not how other people live? yes I'm guilty of projecting that other people drive to the store despite living somewhere that I can take the public electric trolley and walk to places in my life.