If it’s up to each and every one of us to solve pollution, then we individuals need to get together and take down the highest polluters, through collective action (and hopefully not violence, but allegedly Luigi has shown us its effectiveness when everything else doesn’t work).
Same problem with the dipshits who say “hey, you can get vaccinated and wear a mask if you want”.
The problem is we have done nothing about making businesses responsible for the mess they create, from CO2 to pollution. The public always ends up with the bill while private owners walk away rich. We have been doing it this way now for so long that we are genuinely going to destroy our habitat with climate change and no one is going to stop it happening.
Companies invented single use packaging - blamed the consumers for polluting the environment.
Consumers then paid for garbage disposal.
Companies did nothing wrong.
This spiral continues with everything.
Companies make people dependent on something by eliminating all alternatives, this turns out to be bad for the environment and suddenly the people are the bad ones.
Shh, you must be wracked with guilt because of all of your sins. Think about all the privilege one enjoys in first-world countries because corporations have single-handedly solved all of the world’s problems. /s
I wonder if there is a way to actually empower individuals when it comes to environmental issues, like if each of us had some kind of right to the various resources we lived near. For example, experts might determine that there’s only so much water that could be sustainably extracted from a given source in a year. Well, just divide that amount among the people who depend on that source and ration representative credits to them. To get water from that source, one would have to be paid for with a corresponding amount of credits. People can sell the credits they don’t need to anyone who wants extra. Water intensive operations like hydraulic fracturing or pistachio farming would cease to get their water for free. They’d have to directly compensate the people for using this resource by buying water credits. The idea would probably crash the economy, since capitalism depends on cheap access to natural resources.
Climate issues have always been pushed down to the individuals. The people are asked to recycle and meanwhile corporations have zero ramificationsfor polluting endlessly.
Starbucks CEO or someone was taking a private jet to the office. I mean, seriously what in the living fuck.
Actually even worse look at wells and unclosed wells, some corporations will drill then just leave the mess to everyone else.
Not news so much as bloody obvious olds.
