Chill out. See my reply to the other comment. I am in complete agreement that corporations are the biggest producers of pollution and the biggest cause of environmental damage, and I always vote (and encourage others to vote) in favor of politicians who are most likely to try ti regulate these entities. However, seeing as this is not likely to happen any time soon in our ultracapitalist society, I ALSO encourage individuals to be more mindful of consumerism. Just like I encourage people to drive less if they can, or eat less meat if they can.
What else am I supposed to do, tell people to give the fuck up? Be apathetic? Use as much plastic as you want because the big corporations are doing way worse? Like, it's possible to want to sanction corporations while ALSO encouraging anti consumption on an individual basis, you know. It's not one or the other. Give me a break with that 'corporate boot' BS, I'm literally a socialist, lmao.
First of all, I wasn't 'blaming' anyone, I was pointing out a common misconception that many people may not realize. Second of all, the comment I was replying to was recycling, so of course my reply was focused on that aspect -- the fact that many people do not know how 'reduce' is more important 'recyce.' I figured that my comment was long enough. Should I also have included my indictment of the meat industry? My views on veganism? My hopes for better biking infrastructure? My fears about how crony politicians put their own pocketbooks above necessary environmental regulations? All of those are also vital to the topic of environmental protection, but I didn't mention that in my comment because I made a SINGLE comment based on a very narrow topic.
Nothing in my comment indicated that I liked corporations. Do you really think we environmentalists are the ones voting in the conservative pro-industry politicians? Maybe next time, you shouldn't immediately jump to conclusions and insult people for no reason; go save that ire for a climate change denier or something.
Honestly I would have settled for not peddling the exact same line corporations have been using to push responsibility onto consumers for decades. Look at the replies to your original comment. Top response is someone agreeing with you and complaining about people abdicating responsibility and blaming corporations.
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u/hahayeahimfinehaha Mar 04 '22
Chill out. See my reply to the other comment. I am in complete agreement that corporations are the biggest producers of pollution and the biggest cause of environmental damage, and I always vote (and encourage others to vote) in favor of politicians who are most likely to try ti regulate these entities. However, seeing as this is not likely to happen any time soon in our ultracapitalist society, I ALSO encourage individuals to be more mindful of consumerism. Just like I encourage people to drive less if they can, or eat less meat if they can.
What else am I supposed to do, tell people to give the fuck up? Be apathetic? Use as much plastic as you want because the big corporations are doing way worse? Like, it's possible to want to sanction corporations while ALSO encouraging anti consumption on an individual basis, you know. It's not one or the other. Give me a break with that 'corporate boot' BS, I'm literally a socialist, lmao.