• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    A few people cared, fewer did anything about it. Most were more concerned with mass production of cheap shit.

    Got a heat pump to replace the gas boiler, bike instead of car and replaced the concrete paved garden with what will hopefully become a wildflower meadow with shrubs on the edges. You can actually just stop buying a lot of the stuff that is causing these problems.

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      2 days ago

      The issue was never the average person. Corporations have always been the issue. Even if everyone on the planet tried to live as green as possible, the corporations would still cause too much damage for us to undo. The only way the average person could have made an impact was by attacking the corporations and their means of polluting the planet. That meant sabotaging their facilities. But the climate change movement was too focused on peaceful protest, and there has been evidence that points the blame for this on the corporations once again. For everyone, the issue wasn’t that they weren’t willing to live green enough (which is true that most people just didn’t bother, but it isn’t what caused the issue of climate change in the first place and wouldn’t have been the answer either), it was that they weren’t willing to risk their life and privileges to dismantle the system that caused it. The threat of climate change was not imminent or tangible enough for people to take real action.

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        6 days ago

        I know! Its so easy its great! Plus its generally cheaper too, so I don’t have to work very hard and I still have enough money. God damn life is easy.

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          6 days ago

          Your actions you promote taking care only possible by those who own houses and have the means and funds to cover the replacements.
          I understand you will say the wildflowers is basically free but it takes time that you have a privilege of having.

          If that’s where you set the positive actions that people can take most will not be able to achieve them and view you poorly for bragging about it.