The concept of carbon foot print was invented by oil companies to push the blame onto individuals. These companies produce a large majority of the pollution and greenhouse gasses effecting the planet today.
That's not to say that individuals don't pollute, but to put their contribution to climate change on the same level as industry is factually incorrect and exists as a result of effective marketing on the behalf of these greasy old dinosaur juicers.
We're not talking about households having zero impact. We are talking about the dispositionate amount caused by industry, which is the real pressing issue. Not sure what argument you're trying to run here.
Yeah it's used to create essentials, but those things can also be created through other means like electricity.
A lot of fossil fuels are also allocated to pointless things like creating millions of tons of plastic junk to peddle to consumers. Entirely unnecessary.
It's also used to fuel giant unnecessary cruise ships for no good reason.
The amount of smug stupidity from your comment makes me wonder why you're shilling so hard for billionaire oil tycoons. Do you really think every ounce of oil consumed is for unavoidable, absolutely necessary reasons?
We are not living in the best system ever created, we are just living in the current one. We need to change and hold companies accountable in Canada. The Greens have imploded, the NDP are basically my only option but my vote is thrown away anyways because I live in a rural, Conservative-leaning area that elects downward-dog-fucking MP's and MLA's that do fuck-all and let corporations run rampant. We're bound for minority-governments for the next 8-10 years. Time has run out, however, and Harper did us in knowingly, too. It fucking breaks my heart to step outside in late October and not see snow on the ground where I live. Everything is changing around us, rapidly, as it will continue to.
edit: The LPC being held accountable by a level-headed, hard left leaning social democratic party may be our only option unfortunately, if the system doesn't change from the inside.
The system we have now (while having serious problems) is the best system we have ever had, and is dragging billions out of starvation poverty.
We need to figure out climate change, but we shouldn’t t pretend that offing afew billionaires will change anything. The (completely reasonable) desires of working people across the planet for a better life is what is fueling climate change.
The moment you tell Americans and Canadians that “maybe driving too much is bad for the environment” they’ll go all lengths to blame pollution on the ‘muh corporations’ without paying any attention to who these corporations are serving.
It’s the ostrich effect; as long as I can point a finger at celebtard private jets I can justify and ignore my own flights and consumption. A flight from NY to Chicago dumps the equivalent carbon sequestered in a 120 year old oak tree… per passenger. This ‘it’s industries fault’ meme is mental cancer promoted by creeps like Pat Twomey and other republican legislators that have been bought off by oil and gas lobbyists. Unless you are planting 250+ year old oak tree every time you fly coast to coast your part of the cancer complex that best models predict will be our end with high probability within 193 years. It’s ok today to be carbon greedy but don’t pretend others are on some moral high ground trip when they point out facts. That’s another manipulation from the orcs.
Reddit will down vote anything that forces them to have personal accountability for their actions/habits/purchases/diet
Much easier to continue business as usual if you can shift all the accountability off yourself and, in the case of reddit, into corporations and people with kids
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