@dredmorbius Really frustrates me when individuals/consumers tries to pass the buck, saying things like “oh we can still have cheeseburgers and cigarettes, the problem is Roxxon Oil Corporation.” EVERYONE needs to step the fuck up re this! Corporations, goverments, NGOs, clubs, organizations, families, even individuals! EVERYONE!

Littering, leaving the light on, and car culture are not and will never be cool!

@Sandra This past February I'd had an appointment, TV playing in the reception area, COVID news.
Receptionist looked at it and ccommented that she wished the news wouldn't make such a big deal out of it. Needlessly caring people.

"This is big, and it's going to be far bigger", I said.

The office was closed for the next three months. I've not seen that receptionist there again, on a couple of visits. And tis thing is still going on and will be for a while.

But yeah: climate, energy, resources, pollution: things are going to hange beyond all possible recognition. And not just corps or the rich. (Most reading this are the global rich.)

@coldwave Of the two, the systemic approach is far more effective. Create a world in which peope can only do the right thing (or have to work much harder not to), and the problem resolves.

It's also the proper answer to this bullshit (on plastics pollution):

I'm confused how this is anything other than "Coca-Cola the worlds most popular beverage maker" Coca-Cola didn't do anything to put that garbage there, people who consumed their product did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381647

Coke created the bottles, the market for their flavured sugar water, the supply and distribution ecosystem, the regulatory and legal frameworks, etc.

I'll do the responsible thing myself (refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle) and haven't had a Coke (or other soft drink) in years, probably a decade or more. But billions of other people do.

I can't change that through individual action. Collectively addressing systemic change can.

@Sandra