Black and white cartoon.  Left panel: a group blocks a road with a banner reading "No new oil | so there's a liveable planet for our children."  Right panel: A boardroom, with members of the board raising their hands.  In front of them is a chart showing planned oil extraction going well above a dashed line marked "Level beyond which there will be no livable plant for our children.

  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What I don’t hear anyone really talking about is cutting down consumption. We all have so much shit and every solution presented to help is to build and buy more shit. Things started to improve a bit during all the pandemic lockdowns when people just stayed home and stopped consuming a bunch of shit they didn’t need.

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      1 year ago

      What you’re doing there is the bidding of those in power by shifting responsibility away from them and on to individuals just trying to survive (and yes, give in to the literal constant propaganda).
      We wouldn’t be consuming all that shit if there wasn’t someone making shitloads of money from selling it to us.
      Blame them.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not saying corporations don’t have work to do to clean up their act, but just because someone makes something doesn’t mean you have to buy it. Stop buying their bull shit and they will go out of business. Win-win-win. We win because we save money, the environment wins because less stuff is produced, and society wins because there is one less no-value bull shit business in the world.

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      1 year ago

      Fossil fuels needed to be the embarrassing, temporary stopgap to renewables and nuclear… instead we shut our eyes and ears and told ourselves it would meet all our needs. We should have started connecting the planet with railways fifty years ago in preparation for cleaner energy. Cars ought to be as unnecessary and shameful as private jets, and freight shouldn’t exist if it can’t be done very cleanly… I suppose hindsight is 20/20 but we’re not at a point where we can make any of those transitions without huge amounts of pain now.