Paper straws and electric cars aren't radical change, they're incremental. We're so far past the point where paper straws will make a meaningful impact, and electric cars are still largely just as bad for the environment in the majority of regions where electricity is not renewable, but these aren't even meaningful arguments to have because even if everyone in the entire world who drives a car switched to magical solar powered EVs overnight that's still only 10% or so of global emissions.
The majority of emissions do not come from individuals, they come from corporations. Industrial agriculture, power generation (which increasingly goes to data centers), manufacturing, etc. are what emit most of the CO2 and consume most of the water.
The only way forward is to destroy capitalism, green consumerism won't save us.
9 Comments
Visstix@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 21d
Yeah well there's nothing we can do about it. Think of the shareholders.
1egg4u@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 21d
Maybe we should just give whales guns or something and let them take over... we've fucked this up too much
myrmidex@belgae.social · 3 pts · 21d
too late
1egg4u@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 20d
Oh wow humanity exceeds my disappointment yet again :(
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au · 2 pts · 21d
Paper straws and electric cars when? We need to stop this stuff, guys.
orvorn@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 20d
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au · 1 pts · 20d
Are you against radical change, like paper straws and electric cars?
orvorn@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 19d
Paper straws and electric cars aren't radical change, they're incremental. We're so far past the point where paper straws will make a meaningful impact, and electric cars are still largely just as bad for the environment in the majority of regions where electricity is not renewable, but these aren't even meaningful arguments to have because even if everyone in the entire world who drives a car switched to magical solar powered EVs overnight that's still only 10% or so of global emissions.
The majority of emissions do not come from individuals, they come from corporations. Industrial agriculture, power generation (which increasingly goes to data centers), manufacturing, etc. are what emit most of the CO2 and consume most of the water.
The only way forward is to destroy capitalism, green consumerism won't save us.
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au · 1 pts · 18d
Whoosh!