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Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, you missed the mark. The individual is not the problem and will not make an iota of difference.

Billionaires are the enemy. They are useless. They are pitting the average citizen against one another. There is no good billionaire.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-emit-more-carbon-pollution-90-minutes-average-person-does-lifetime

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    If we dont support billioniares business', and turned "the individual" into an organized mass, it would work.

    I dont know if this opinion, to change using amazon and the other big retailers, will ever come though. I saw someone legit promoting aliexpress for a product not too long ago, and I was surprised no one gave them shit for it.

    If Working for and using, for example, amazon, was suddenly shamed and everyone stopped using it, it would stop making the billionaire at the top money. If no one buys the product, no one is willing to work for the company, the company would disolve. bezos still wouldnt be broke, or held to account, but this revenue stream would stop.

    Will it happen though? I feel like a nhilist for saying, I dont think so.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    12% of global emissions are individual car drivers alone. The individual is a sizable portion of the problem, and we need a multi pronged approach that attacks corporations outsized impact and reduces certain emissions from individuals as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    There are over a billion cars on the road. Individually it is nothing and 12% is a small percentage. Where is the other 88. I'm sick of this blame the individual when companies are doing most of the polluting. We could stop driving all cars today and it wouldn't help. But anything to keep arrow going up. Only thing people can really do is consume less but that is a hard ask for Americans who consume far more then other countries.

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