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Surely there's no point in reducing your personal carbon footprint without holding capital accountable at the state level.
by throwaway27448 5mo ago
Surely there's no point in reducing your personal carbon footprint without holding capital accountable at the state level.
- bluGill 5mo agoYour efforts cascade. You alone mean nothing, but states and companies are just reacting to the collective wants, so if everyone waits for everyone else first nothing will happen.
- throwaway27448 5mo ago> states and companies are just reacting to the collective wants Insanely naive take. They react to capital.
- bluGill 5mo agoFor the purposes of this, there's no difference. Not that there's no difference, but it doesn't matter for this.
- throwaway27448 5mo agoAgain, insanely naive take. We do not live in the utopia you think we do
- tmnvix 5mo agoIf I remember correctly, US per capita CO2 footprint is around 14 tonnes (this includes industrial activity). Average US driver of an ICE vehicle produces around 4 tonnes of CO2 per year. Personal choices matter.
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- throwaway27448 5mo agoI think the second half of your argument is missing. How much of that CO2 emission is even in my control? What is capital doing to reduce its end of output? What sort of mechanisms do I even have to control the economy? I can't stop american companies from selling out my grandkid's future. My parents couldn't either. Our economy is simply not structured to reflect collective interest. If you vote for a political party that does want to take this seriously, you get accused of supporting fascism. I'm not going to sweat recycling while our entire political economy makes a farce of caring about the future.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoIf you drive an ICE vehicle in the US, about 4 tonnes. He just told you that.
- throwaway27448 5mo agoI can't do anything about that because I can't go back in time and force our country to build public transit. It's not my fault that the country is so ass-backwards we can't move rationally.