• mriormro@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The focus should be on industry, fabrication, production, and energy generation. That’s the largest impact you can have.

    Regulating people’s lives, especially people who already feel pressed upon given their contextual poverty/inequality is not how anything is going to happen. In fact, you’ll probably be exactly where we are now: mostly no one giving a shit or doing anything about it.

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      1 year ago

      The focus should be on ending the suburban American car-centric lifestyle. That’s what’s fucking up the planet, whether you want to admit it or not.

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        1 year ago

        You focus on carbon and energy reduction of the sectors I mentioned in my previous comment. You don’t stop this by telling Jane from Oswego to stop buying plastic novelty straws. You stop this by disincentivizing the production of plastic novelty straws as a whole. This is an issue of overproduction as much as it’s an issue of overconsumption.

        Individual people are not the vector that will subvert this crisis, unfortunately.