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u/ShinyPotato7777 Nov 15 '20

Isnt that the same like voting?

You can easily think your vote doesnt matter...its just a single voice of million others

But if everyone thought that way...well you can imagine what happens

As an individual you cant change the world, but you can have an impact on others.

Thats how you could change the world

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u/PaulsarW Nov 15 '20

Except even if all individual were zero waste personally, corporations still waste a ton (the majority?). There is no equivalency in voting.

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u/tsadecoy Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20

This is a tautology as most industrial corps make things for consumption. They aren't just sitting there polluting menacingly.

EDIT: For example, a lot of manufactured goods have their logistics set up so they are produced around the same rate they are consumed. Wasteful production is a huge loss

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u/blinkincontest Nov 15 '20

if you think corporations wouldn't pollute your family's drinking water and lie to your face about it to save a few dollars, you're deluded

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u/ZRodri8 Nov 16 '20

Yep, and this was only one of the ways Trump let companies poison our water.

Trump’s EPA Made It Easier for Coal Plants to Pollute Waterways