CaspianXIWill we look back at today's "go green" initiatives as stupid and inadequate?
UndoLipsA lot of the initiatives are ineffective by design because the real goal is to give the consumers agency over the problem.
Corporations have known that individual effort is a drop in the bucket but by framing the problem as not not a “corporate” problem but a “society” problem, they can keep not fixing it, for profit.
Those companies pollute to produce goods and services that individual buy.
What does holding corporations accountable look like if not refusing to give them our money while advocating for regulation?
Individual change is changing society.
Throwing your hands in the air, doing nothing to change your destructive habits and just saying "but corporations" isn't gonna help anything.
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Claiming that oil companies are to blame for producing all that oil seems stupid. If you use less oil, they make less oil
667It’s borderline impossible to use less oil in increasingly car-centric infrastructure systems.
BalsshMaybe in US, but in Europe the trend is towards more public transportation.
The amount of profit and money in the oil industry will ensure that it's product remains relevant for as long as possible. If it's not through gasoline, it will be something else.
Meanwhile they'll be doing their best to sabotage and lobby against any competition to make it harder for individuals to even have the opportunity to do the right thing. The change has to come from the top (government mandates) in order for it to have any meaningful impact any time soon.
Both are true. The oil companies will lobby to maintain their position, yes. But you’ll also make the choice to drive places when maybe you could cycle