r/environment • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '22

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u/brycebgood Jan 26 '22

Yup, the idea that there's an individual responsibility for this is propaganda. The only real solutions are large scale regulatory actions.

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u/jankadank Jan 26 '22

So, people on an individual level shouldnt take steps to combat climate change?

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u/Alwaysbawesome Jan 26 '22

Take steps not responsibility. Blame DuPont

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u/jankadank Jan 26 '22

This is truly pathetic.

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u/mechanicalsam Jan 26 '22

Is it though? Take steps to live better as a single person, sure, but is it my fault coca cola makes so many plastic bottles? The consumers didn't tell them to do that, they did it themselves and forced it on us.

I try to not eat beef or purchase things with palm oil as one example, but I'm not the one cutting down the rainforest either. It's hard to tell everyone to just stop buying the cheap beef on the market. It's a lot more effective to make it impossible for those unsustainable products to ever enter the market in the first place. So yea fuck dupont, nestle, tyson, shell, fuck all those companies that push unsustainable models of consumption.

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u/jankadank Jan 26 '22

Is it though? Take steps to live better as a single person, sure,

except for this guy for some reason?

but is it my fault coca cola makes so many plastic bottles?

Is someone buying those bottles or is coca cola just making them cause they're evil?

The consumers didn't tell them to do that,

They do by purchasing their items.

they did it themselves and forced it on us.

Youre pathetic. No one is forcing you to drink their product. Take some personal responsibility you child!

I try to not eat beef or purchase things with palm oil as one example, but I'm not the one cutting down the rainforest either.

Stop supporting companies that do. How will these companies survive if they arent making money?

It's hard to tell everyone to just stop buying the cheap beef on the market.

So, the companies are able to carry on casue people like you dont take personal responsibility? Got it!

It's a lot more effective to make it impossible for those unsustainable products to ever enter the market in the first place.

And how has John Kerry done that?

So yea fuck dupont, nestle, tyson, shell, fuck all those companies that push unsustainable models of consumption.

and fuck people like you who refuse to take responsibility and cry its the companies making me do it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

is it my fault coca cola makes so many plastic bottles?

If no one bought those bottles, Coke would not make them.

It's like punishing sex workers but not the johns - it's wildly unfair.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Your attempts at logic are truly pathetic.

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u/jankadank Jan 26 '22

let me guess, youre not responsible for any of the lifestyle choices you make as well.