• BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    So if they’ve shown percentage the numbers wouldn’t really fit the agenda. Biased article is biased

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      1 month ago

      Multiply anything by a billion people and it’s going to be a big number - food waste, plastic grocery bags, paper napkins. It can be a way to encourage people to think about their own contribution to environmental problems, but it often ends up distracting people into making a big deal of, and demanding personal lifestyle changes over, something that’s actually a small contributor to the real problem.