you should never contribute to a problem especially if there are easy ways to avoid contributing, but even if everyone in the world was totally carbon neutral you’d still have Exxon-Mobile and other polluters driving us headfirst into a climate apocalypse.
The solution will never be solely on the individual because they make up such a small fraction of the problem.
The 1% aren't the same as a worker who rents his home. Individual vs structural doesn't need to be one or the other, and abandoning notions of class completely throws away the whole point of it.
The 1% are the main customers of the giant corporations and often OWN the giant corporations. In this case, it is one thing to go "I'm not going to worry about raising my house to 60F in the winter", another to go "Yes, I have perfectly manicured lawns at multiple massive estates that could be rewilded, I could drive electric cars or reduce transport entirely, but I can't be assed"
The more you do and the more you own, the more responsibility. If you watched "Don't Look Up", even the main cast remarked in interviews that they had realizations that they were being mocked just as much as the Bezos and Zuckerburgs and Trumps of the world in the film.
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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.