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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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The research fairy
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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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geobeck
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It's like basing a safety plan on signs without considering physical barriers.
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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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Log 🪵
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If everyone would just take *one* bite out of their nearest rich...
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Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

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Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says

Analysis of the carbon offset projects used by top corporations including Delta, Gucci and ExxonMobil raises concerns around their emission cuts claims
Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)
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silverwizard
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@FinchHaven Go do some individual action! Go burn down a CEO's house
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Andy Gocke
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Last one isn't true. Some countries have disconnected GDP growth from carbon emissions:
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Piko Starsider
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recycling is important but it's by far the least important of the three R's: Reduce, reuse, recycle. We can't reduce and reuse in most cases because we're forced to consume and consume, to commute instead of just living closer to our activities, to use single use plastics instead of being able to bring glass bottles and jars back, etc, etc. If we try hard individually, we're only making things hard for ourselves. Changed need to be systemic.
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Piko Starsider
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I don't disagree, it's a scam, but it's not "just" a scam. I won't stop recycling because the little it does is at least something. I focus on reducing and reusing but again, I can only do so much when there's plastic everywhere. I'm throwing water out of a sinking ship with a tiny bucket with full knowledge that what we actually need is plugging the hole. Until we figure out how, I won't stop using my little bucket, because it's not a big effort in the great scheme of things.
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@admin

> 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.

@Some Internet Person ✡︎
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@hazardouspeach Yup, it's all the same playbook: cynically directing your attention away from the people at the top who can actually make a change happen
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levampyre
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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. 😕

#compost
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@Juliasnz Looks like you fell for it and you're part of the problem!
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