• jandar_fett@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The sentiment here is good, but be careful not to fall into the “personal responsibility” trap that the fossil fuel and soda industry established back in the late 80s/early 90s. The sad truth is that personal responsibility in solving climate change is wishful thinking. The carbon footprint of all of the major corporations is so many orders of magnitude larger than any plausible percentage of individuals who do their part by being as environmentally conscious as possible that it doesn’t matter unless we regulate them and to do that we have to redefine the laws of campaign financing and abolish Corporate Personhood aka, Citizen’s United for a start.

    It’s pretty bleak. Source: was going to be an Enviornmental Scientist and I decided that was too depressing and life it too short.