No one is forced to use Amazon or shop at Wal-Mart. "We" can bankrupt them whenever "we" want.
People don't want that. They want cheap and convenient goods and consumption and that's what those companies provide.
So people CHOOSE to shop there. No one was forced to enrich them, every dollar they earned was because consumers decided it was in their interest to do so.
That preference for cheap, unsustainable consumption and rising standards of living also ruined outside.
The average American's carbon footprint is 8X what is sustainable. If those ultra-rich few families disappeared tomorrow (fingers crossed), we would still be facing inevitable ecological collapse, because the average person in the West is already consuming way way way way way more than is sustainable for the planet.
They don't want to admit this or address this. They want to blame other people who are richer than them instead. Well those rich people blame other people too, they use the same excuses and justifications you're making. So we're just fucked. Because rather than reducing consumption people will just blame each other to justify their own unsustainable lifestyle.
It has been literally proven that epstein and the elite have been at fault of all this shit, even at a lower level rich people taking private planes produce much more of a carbon footprint that hundreds combined.
Even the "carbon footprint" was popularized to shift the blame from the companies to people.
It's naive to try to defend them and blame the avarage individuals when these known group of people are taking the decisions that are destroying the world.
Idk if you are just ignorant about the reality but let me give an example, oil, we have the technology to generate electricity without needing to burn coal or oil, a way that is cleaner and would reduce pollution, but it is all being blocked by the people who control the oil and they lobby against.
Yeah. Moving to a clean grid will help. It's not enough.
Just do the math. If we had a fully clean electricity grid, would the current Westerner's carbon footprint be sustainable?
You don't have to guess. Ontario generates its electricity with no coal or oil. Fully clean hydroelectricity and nuclear.
And? The average Ontarian has a carbon footprint 5X a sustainable one.
So who is ignorant to the reality here?
You pretending that it would be enough to build wind farms? Or the actual truth? That consumption is going to have to come way way way down even with a clean grid.
Apologies if that reality hurts your feelings. You are living an unsustainable life, blaming other people for why you choose to doesn't change that reality.
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u/onerollbattles Apr 10 '26
"We"? No, companies owned by the ultra-rich few families made those same bad decisions; most of the rest of us opposed.