Chu 朱Sep 23, 2024

Whenever I want to buy clothing, I think about the rivers that are poisoned with the dyes used in manufacturing.

Whenever I want to buy a new electronic device, I think about the children dying from mining rare earth mineral.

Whenever I want to buy packaged food, I think about the marine life dying from the "recyclable" plastic.

Then I often don't buy these things. That's very bad for billionaires. So they don't want us thinking about these things. That's why you don't see coverage of them in corporate media.

#ClimateChange
#MediaIsComplicit

Show threadTheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖Sep 23, 2024
@chu To follow this logic then why you are on internet ? Data centers and all the electronic needed to create internet pollute the planet, if you use AI even worse and we can find the cost of EVERY SINGLE THING we use daily to be very very costly.
Are you living in a house ? Air conditioning ? Heating ? etc.
So what ?
Are you willing to become an hermit and live in a cave ?
Are you willing to renounce to things like a house, car, phone, computer, etc. ?
What are you proposing ?
Show threadChu 朱Sep 23, 2024

@thefwguy

So because I can't get to zero I should just not bother, get an SUV and let polar bears suck our tailpipes?

For the record, my house is off gas, I have long given up the car.

Show threadTheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖Sep 23, 2024
@chu I'm saying that what "you" can do not necessarily is replicable to others and that you are not dictating the goal for every one of us.
Or put in this way, what you do not necessarily make you automatically better than others.
Having resources I too could avoid few things that I know cause problems to be produced. Starving or going around naked in winter or living in a cave, believe it or not, is not in my intentions.
Am I a bad person because of that ?
Of course I am with your mindset.
For the record, in the winter how you keep warm ?
No gas ... so what instead ?
Pellets ? Woods ? Electricity ? Solar ? ... whatever you use HAS a cost and impact, maybe different but there is.
The truth is that if you really want to save the planet, we have to go as species.
Show threadChu 朱

@thefwguy

That's a lot of projection batman. I never implied I was better than everyone else.

I said that corporate media has played our asses

Sep 23, 2024 at 10:16pmWeb
Show threadTheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖Sep 23, 2024
@chu That's the message I received.
Generally speaking every time I read people like you, with a lot of ideology, in the end they think to be better than others, simple life experience.
Glad to know you are not one of them.
About the corporate media (who they are ?) is since the human species exists that somebody do that to others to obtain power/money and keep them. Nothing new under the sun.