Armie3 said: "What are you doing to stop it? What are you not doing?
I'm just curious to see what little steps people are taking, if any. Is the average person actually doing anything? With that scum in the White House, isn't it all the more important that we actually make a real and substantial change in our own lives?
Do you still fly?
Do you drive an electric car?
Do you drink from plastic bottles?
Do you use a re-usable coffee cup?
Do you still eat meat?
Do you wear clothes made in Asia?
Do you eat fruit out of season?
Do you buy flowers flown in from the other side of the planet?
Do you use devices made in China?
How clean is your conscience?
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Far be it to say we shouldn't do something. But some of these are downright impractical. Flying? How else can one get somewhere across the country or world now? I'm not taking a train cross country or a boat/yacht across the ocean, no one has the days on end to spare, ergo lost money, for this. As much as I admire Greta for her climate justice work, that yacht she took across the Atlantic, leaves its own carbon footprint so I tended to find it a hypocritical move. I'm willing to be corrected if I'm missing something with that.
Yes I drink from a plastic bottle and keep that bottle as long as possible and when I do get rid of it, it goes into recycling, I actually am a recycling nut.
I've been trying to lessen my eat intake. We ALL use devices made in China. Have fun trying to find one that isn't. Clothes is tad easier to find non China made items, but still difficult.
Electric cars? Until they are less expensive and chargers are available everywhere on roads, you won't see many people using one. And to expound on that, electric cars have their own carbon footprint that for some reason no one seems to talk about...the rare ore that's mined for the batteries. This actually is just as much, possibly more, of a carbon footprint than gas fueled cars.
Anyone see the common denominator? Almost ALL of these are industry problems, not individual ones. Do not mistake me, we as individuals need to our part but it's already been proven time and time again that the biggest contributors to climate change are major industries and corporations, not us 99% peons. Do not forget that the biggest players are doing very well at making us 99% feel like it's our fault and need to make a change when the very way these industries function quite literally prevents these changes from happening. Watch John Oliver's episode on recycling to get the barest idea of what we're up against with this.
Updated On: 9/7/21 at 09:37 AM
