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> or change your diet. That part reads like parody. The changes on the individual consumer side do the least. They are just a deflection from what actually ne
by watwut 3mo ago
> or change your diet.
That part reads like parody.
The changes on the individual consumer side do the least. They are just a deflection from what actually needs to be done - regulations and enforcement over industrial polluters.
- paulcole 3mo agoI disagree. If someone isn’t willing to make changes in their own life to support something they claim to care about, then I’m extremely unwilling to listen to them. It might not be dietary change to veganism, but when I ask, “What steps have you taken…” I want to hear a reasonable answer, not “Well if I change it doesn’t matter so someone else needs to change…”
- watwut 3mo agoI want to see changes that actually have results rather then hear constant demands for pointless virtue signaling. "Unless you all start doing this ever expanding list of useless signals, I will oppose all actually useful regulations and changes" is being intentionally obtuse. "I will prevent wind powerplants, I will scream 'communism' each time some wants cleaner plants, I will pretend global warning does not exist, because every single person who wants to do opposite did not turned themselves into vegetarian and some people still fly". Oh, and I also pretend I am the only not hypocritical one here.
- paulcole 3mo agoOh no, I know that I am hypocritical if that is what you mean. If the Earth was cooling too fast and we were implored to drive more, fly more, etc., I wouldn't do it. It just happens that the way I like to live happens to be the best way to exist in the Western world when it comes to climate change.
- keybored 3mo ago> It might not be dietary change to veganism, but when I ask, “What steps have you taken…” Agitating for political change.
- 8by3 3mo agoI actually linked a whole article about this point. Yes BP popularised personal carbon footprint to deflect responsibility. But actually in yge short term dramatically reducing methane is one of the most impactful things we can do as while it has a short half life its 80x more impactful than carbon. And the majority of methane comes from agriculture. We are no longer at the point of do x instead of y. We need to do it all, put fossil fuel comapnies out of business and change your diet.