Big Heat and Big Oil
www.newyorker.com
A rapid end to burning fossil fuel would arrest the heating that has caused extreme damage in recent weeks; and that rapid end is possible.
  • Ni@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I think we all know rapid change is possible if the right motivators are there. Not sure how you get people and legislators to make the rapid change we need.

    A few things we can do as individuals is fly less, eat less meat, drive less (where possible).

    On a larger scale, write to your representatives, and vote for people who actually put climate change at the forefront of their agenda. It’s now time for us all to be really pushy.

    • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      A few things we can do as individuals is fly less, eat less meat, drive less (where possible).

      I’m really sick and tired of living this and hearing this advice for the last 30 years and still not a single fucking dent has been made with this lie.

      If you are reading the above comment thinking that the individual level changes will do anything to improve the environment, you are forgetting the largest pool of polluters on the planet are U.S. and Chinese militaries, followed by the fossil fuel industry, followed by the industrial manufacturing of mainland China and India.

      They are all literal unstoppable imposing juggernauts; no matter what you do at the individual level, if you can’t stop those polluters, you may as well be scooping thimbles of water out of the ocean manually since that has a higher likelihood of doing something productive. Over the last 30 years I’ve been living with minimal carbon footprint and going broke trying to do this.

      I’m fucking done trying to live green anymore, it’s been all a waste of my time and sanity thinking I have made a difference these last 30 years desperately thinking I can help save the environment separating and recycling everything meticulously and reading that they throw it all in a fucking landfill anyways, growing my own sustainable garden and eating vegan and composting my own waste, realizing pesticides are still killing insect and flora diversity while animals are still suffering in fucking droves every single fucking day for people to eat shitty fast food; no matter how much time I’ve spent protesting online and in person, etc, meanwhile the earth is heading to a heating apocalypse and everything I’ve been doing as an individual is fucking useless.