Eco-conscious rule - Blåhaj Lemmy
The article
[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/health/insulin-pens-inhalers-plastic.html]
is much better than the headline, and details how companies are trying to make
the devices less of an ecological problem. Buf the framing in the headline just
made me think of this.
My gravestone will read “Finally went carbon neutral!”
Unless you had kids then your decisions can still be having that impact. But it’s a silly way to look at things with corporations do most of it and they’re not going to just get old and die.
Not when people keep giving them money. You can make the decision to boycott a company or industry that you disagree with.
I get where you’re going but you can’t always just boycott a company. For instance I despise Walmart but if it’s the only place you have to buy food you don’t exactly have options. Some of the most hated corporations are the most stable because people don’t just free market capitalism their way out of ecological disaster.
Of course there are people who don’t have the means to make these choices, but for those who do (including many here on Lemmy), it’s important to recognize the impact that your decisions make. Far too often I see the corporate contribution used as an excuse to continue supporting these corporations by people who do have the ability to boycott them. It’s an appeal to futility at best, and actively funding the problem at worst.
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