The individual carbon footprint is not a red herring, it’s valid way of talking about GHG emissions with numbers.
More importantly, it’s the Fossil Fuel sector reminding you that you’re their bitch.
If you don’t like individual action, no problem, the systemic approach is to ban fossil fuels extraction, production and distribution. You’re OK with that, right?
edit: the generic you, not OP
Why is the B word removed? Is that a Lemmy.world automod or something? I had it happen to me as well, but I can say a million other words that don’t get automatically removed.
Pretty sure that’s a lemmy.ml thing because they are a bunch of pussies lol
It’s not systemic vs individual. It’s both.
Unless you believe politicians will ever tax and remove subsidies from meat. I’m not holding my breath for that one.
On the one hand, I could stop buying yogurt in a disposable plastic cup. On the other, I could shut down the factory that makes yogurt in disposable plastic cups.
These two things are of equal importance and have the same effect.
I’m very smart and haven’t been psyoped.
Systemic? You mean corporations, specific nameable corporations, not some amorphous system.
yes, specific corporations need to change, but they will not change until they are forced to by the system
Not necessarily. I, for one, mostly (i.e. at least a little bit >50%) blame the deliberately-low-density zoning code and early FHA policy (e.g. redlining and deliberately recommending car-centric development patterns).
Did Standard Oil and General Motors have a huge influence? Sure, but they didn’t literally pass the laws.
Here’s a solution: force all new buildings to use a heat pump for heating and cooling.
Here’s another: tax all private jet flights $2000 per trip
$2000 per trip
per km
Alright, lets get rid of gasoline and meat on a systemic level.
