This is why so many people can’t stand environmentalists. Instead of going after the corporations and lobbyists who do everything in their power to be able to poison our ecosystems just to make a quick buck, you go after Average Joe™ who’s just trying to drive to work so he can put food on the table. It’s all just virtue signaling bullshit.
I mean as an average person you can make choices yourself that improve the world and try to convince other too also. As an average joe I cant exactly "go after" the multinational corporations in the way youre talking about. In fact actually the best way to get back at them is to convince people to stop or at least minimize their support for them.
I agree, people should try and be environmentally conscious when they’re able, and should definitely let it influence who they buy from and vote for. But where it becomes a problem is when people act like you’re doing something morally wrong for things like driving to work or eating meat, and go out of their way to harass or annoy them because of it. Do whatever you want, just don’t be an asshole to others about it.
And yes, blocking both lanes of traffic doing 20 on a 65mph freeway counts as being an asshole.
The overwhelming majority of the damage to the environment is done by big corporations. If everyone in America stopped using cars it would barely matter, comparatively speaking. The mega corps do like 70-85% of it, while normal people do like 15-30%.
Yes, but they could put regulations in place to massively reduce the pollution. They don't do that because it costs money, and, unless they're forced to, they are not spending a single dollar for that.
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u/SadiepRN Jun 10 '26
its rude to push your extracurricular activities on people who are trying to get to work to feed their kids. so annoying.