• Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Capitalism means companies aren’t gonna do shit, but you’ve got a choice to not participate in a flawed system.

    I’m not one to tell people what to do, but pretending that someone else doing a bad thing justifies another bad thing…

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      7 months ago

      Go ahead and refuse to participate. There’s nothing wrong with that. Just don’t expect it to have a significant climate impact.

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        7 months ago

        “I alone can’t change anything” is a hastily spoken excuse to shift responsibility onto others. But you are responsible for your life and your actions.

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          Nothing I personally do will have an effect on climate change. If you want to argue for people to not eat meat, fine. But blaming them for the climate worsening because they eat meat is placing the blame on the wrong party and is not going to convince people. There are other and better arguments.

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            7 months ago

            I can blame more than one party, no problem! Politics must change, the economy must change, and society as well. Since you and me are part of the population, let’s please change too! Politics will follow suit if we are serious.

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              Politics will follow suit if we are serious.

              Like how abortion is legal in the U.S. because the majority is in favor of it, right?

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          7 months ago

          When it comes to climate change, throwing things away is not a major issue, so that’s not really a good comparison.