Plastic recycling* doesn't exist**
Your personal carbon footprint* doesn't exist**
Carbon offsets* don't exist**
Carbon capture* doesn't exist**
Green growth* doesn't exist**
__________
* At the scale necessary to matter in the slightest
** Is and always was an intentional deception perpetrated by industry and those complicit with them to avoid any meaningful change or regulation
If your plan includes the words "but if everyone would just—"
You don't have a plan
Everyone has never "just—" in the history of time
They won't "just—" this time either
We can't "individual responsibility" our way out of a systemic problem
Think about the vanishingly small number of powerful people who actually can make meaningful change and are positioned to do so
They exist
Now imagine if they had the same level of concern
As all the people who will die screaming in their cars on the highway trying to escape the next small Canadian city that just bursts into flames due to an oil industry externality
Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/corporate-carbon-offsets-credits
@pozorvlak This is what I always think of in connection with Communism. "Okay, but what if all political and economic power were centralized in the state, and then the people in government *didn't* abuse that power to enrich themselves and oppress their enemies and maintain their power permanently?"
Very much an "I think you need to be more explicit in Step Two" situation.
@uint8_t @researchfairy I'll keep the habit because it's zero effort and because at least about 5% of it will be recycled. The important part is buying less plastic, although there's plenty of stuff without alternative wrappings. In my country a solution like Germany's will be implemented, where plastic bottles will be returnable to the store for money. However I very rarely buy stuff in plastic bottles.
Ideally we should use reusable glass jars for everything, it would be much better than recycling.
@researchfairy Well, I recycle my food scabs into #compost. With the compost I feed the microbes in my soil, which stores carbon in the humus layer and then I grow green fruit and veggies in that very soil to harvest my food. And with the scrabs of that food I make compost again and so on.
Okay, it's not to the scale this planet needs. But it's a start. 😕
@researchfairy I disagree with personal carbon footprint „not existing“
There’s definitely a difference in doing a vacation next town and traveling by train vs flying across the globe 3 times a year
Saying that personal choice doesn’t matter because the system is broken (which is indeed broken) sends a wrong message
@uint8_t Oh good
Brb I'll solve climate change by not having a vacation this year thanks for the tip
@uint8_t If you're gonna do a malicious bad faith reading of me
You're gonna get one too
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