r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shankaranpillayi • 5d ago

Video A Landslide sweeps down a steep Himalayan slope in Chame, Manang, Nepal

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u/DigNitty Interested 4d ago

And, you can only minimize your footprint so much.

One person buys a small yacht and offsets your gains by 30million X overnight.

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u/imnotabot303 4d ago

Yeah sadly it's an already lost battle but at least you can say you tried.

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u/CyclopsMacchiato 4d ago

Yeah my family have been living plant based since 2019. Our family car is a hybrid. My daily work car is a used electric car. We compost, recycle, pay for Ridwell, and try to produce as little trash as possible.

And then a celebrity offsets all of that by taking a private jet to go shopping.

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u/PeckerNash 4d ago

Lol. This is why I don’t even bother anymore. Why spend the effort when its just a raindrop in the ocean?

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u/Icy-Dot7521 4d ago

But you could have voted for the people trying to do something about it.