BenFeels like there's a lot of binary puritanical stuff online sometimes. 'If you're not personally working 24/7 to combat climate change you are a terrible person' etc. We're all very tired. Frankly I think we're doing a great job, considering. I just think it's OK to be a bit shitty sometimes. You can just be a bit shitty sometimes. If anyone says anything, just tell them I said it's OK. The Ben commandments.
internetsdairy@TheBreadmonkey I couldn't work out how to clean an old bottle of Worcestershire sauce yesterday so I just chucked it in the bin.
Heather 👻@internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey I mean, glass is fairly inert. I feel slightly bad doing that to the plastic jars but then again, you can't really recycle plastic that well either. I should just buy in glass...
@Akki @TheBreadmonkey To Ben’s point – sometimes I’m cleaning out a peanut butter jar and then remember how many billionaire jets are currently tearing through the atmosphere and I’m like, it’s probably OK if I’m not 100% consistent with this kind of thing.
"Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn@internetsdairy @Akki @TheBreadmonkey
I have given up on peanut butter jars. I have only a few more decades of reasonably expected lifespan, and the time it takes to clean out a peanut butter jar eats up far too much of that.
I have given up on peanut butter jars. I have only a few more decades of reasonably expected lifespan, and the time it takes to clean out a peanut butter jar eats up far too much of that.
Дими́трий@Gorfram @internetsdairy @Akki @TheBreadmonkey
also: THIS IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL's RESPONSIBILITY.
that is the lie we've been told.
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all of the pollution, deforestation, poisoning, and toxicity are the inevitable result of capitalist ethics.
you've been programmed to feel 'bad' about your personal impact on the environment. cleaning out the peanut butter jar before tossing it in the recycle bin makes you feel 'better' about yourself and absolves the peanut butter manufacturer of any culpability in the destruction of our only habitable ecosystem.
there is no 'ethical consumption' under capitalism.
in order to preserve this biosphere, and thus their own existance, humans must somehow overcome the power of the capitalist oppressors in order to regain their fundamental rights to negotiate new social arrangements, to freely travel, and to disobey.
I don't think we'll be able to do it by force; I don't think we'll be able to effectively organize in time. we can only hope that the inevitable collapse of this deranged system will not be perfectly destructive and that any survivors can establish better, life-sustaining systems.
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