Plastic recycling* doesn't exist**
Your personal carbon footprint* doesn't exist**
Carbon offsets* don't exist**
Carbon capture* doesn't exist**
Green growth* doesn't exist**
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* At the scale necessary to matter in the slightest
** Is and always was an intentional deception perpetrated by industry and those complicit with them to avoid any meaningful change or regulation
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in reply to The research fairy • • •If your plan includes the words "but if everyone would just—"
You don't have a plan
Everyone has never "just—" in the history of time
They won't "just—" this time either
We can't "individual responsibility" our way out of a systemic problem
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in reply to The research fairy • • •Think about the vanishingly small number of powerful people who actually can make meaningful change and are positioned to do so
They exist
Now imagine if they had the same level of concern
As all the people who will die screaming in their cars on the highway trying to escape the next small Canadian city that just bursts into flames due to an oil industry externality
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in reply to The research fairy • • •Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says
theguardian.com/environment/ar…
Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says
Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama
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but what else is there though 💜
Mark Dominus
in reply to The research fairy • • •@pozorvlak This is what I always think of in connection with Communism. "Okay, but what if all political and economic power were centralized in the state, and then the people in government *didn't* abuse that power to enrich themselves and oppress their enemies and maintain their power permanently?"
Very much an "I think you need to be more explicit in Step Two" situation.
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> So... you're saying that
No I'm not. Please interact with what I wrote, not a strawman argument that you wish I wrote so you can "gotcha" me.
Recycling is not the same as re-use.
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Unknown parent • • •levampyre
in reply to The research fairy • • •Well, I recycle my food scabs into #compost. With the compost I feed the microbes in my soil, which stores carbon in the humus layer and then I grow green fruit and veggies in that very soil to harvest my food. And with the scrabs of that food I make compost again and so on.
Okay, it's not to the scale this planet needs. But it's a start. 😕
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Unknown parent • •Z̈oé ⛵
in reply to The research fairy • • •I disagree with personal carbon footprint „not existing“
There’s definitely a difference in doing a vacation next town and traveling by train vs flying across the globe 3 times a year
Saying that personal choice doesn’t matter because the system is broken (which is indeed broken) sends a wrong message
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in reply to Z̈oé ⛵ • • •@uint8_t Oh good
Brb I'll solve climate change by not having a vacation this year thanks for the tip
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You're gonna get one too
Z̈oé ⛵
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Unknown parent • • •@stapper @uint8_t every little bit helps, but also it can never help enough.
I've never flown anywhere in my life. I don't drive a huge car. Most of my food is from eco-friendly farming. My clothes are mostly second-hand.
If the entire population behaved like me, a dozen billionnaires going on a fifth vacation per year would cancel it all out.
All of our collective "carbon footprints" are smaller than the big toe of billionnaires' carbon footprints.
In other words: if billionnaires and mega corporations stopped pproducing garbage nobody needs, putting AI into everything, using their private jets to fly from the bedroom to the bathroom, and stopped gathering and processing unthinkable amounts of user data, stopped running countless data centers to show us advertisements, the rest of us wouldn't need to live like ascetics.
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in reply to Mx Amber Alex (she/it) • • •Z̈oé ⛵
Unknown parent • • •@stapper no it was not invented „by oil companies“
British Petroleum did run a marketing campaign, probably to cause the shift from collective to individual action.
No your personal choices aren’t enough without systemic change. However you can absolutely make things worse by the meme that personal responsibility for carbon footprint is fake, doesn’t matter, it’s a rigged system anyways, the Revolution will fix it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_f…
total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual, event, organisation, or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent
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in reply to Z̈oé ⛵ • • •@uint8_t Okay I'm gonna just dismiss you as a bad faith sealion at this point
Bye
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