Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat

bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a manner of perspective, Coca Cola is considered one of the largest polluters on the planet but that’s not because corporate Coca Cola is out there polluting for funsies it’s because they make a product that individuals purchase and then individuals improperly dispose of. Sure no one person can stop Coca Cola from polluting but isn’t the pollution caused by your individual purchase your own responsibility?

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No. Coke could make biodegradable packaging and choose not to because number go up. Next question.

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And people could not purchase non biodegradable products

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If everyone got together and did the individual action, it would become significant.

  But getting a big percentage of the population to come together and do something is the challenge.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    if everyone got together

    And this is where it falls apart.

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  • jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it’s more than a challenge, it’s a fucking fantasy dude lmfao. people don’t wake up everyday and choose to do these things, they do these things out of necessity. even if individual action was effective in stemming climate change (it’s not), you have to acknowledge that people aren’t choosing where and how they get their food. you can’t blame someone for not being willing to sacrifice their own comfort or economic posture for a *checks notes*\ infinitesimally small, improbable, and uncertain chance that their actions might help the environment, maybe, just a little bit. that’s fucking patently absurd to expect any rational agent to make that choice the way you are advocating.

    even in this weird victim-blaming mindset people advocating on this basis have, the corps are still at fault! it’s fucking doublespeak and brainwashing, i swear.

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• Wulri@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Operative word you. Individual action was a deliberate red herring constructed by the FF industry propaganda machines half a fucking century ago, because they knew who the actual significant contributors to the problem were.

  I agree that large scale changes require tax reform, advertising bans and massive investments in trains and public transit. But you can’t do that without political power.

  Large scale changes starts with people being aware. Otherwise, it fails.

  Look at what just happened in Canada.

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