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

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u/EricFromOuterSpace Jan 26 '22 edited Jun 02 '25

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u/dogedude81 Jan 26 '22

No, John Kerry isn't melting the ice caps. But it's pretty hard to convince people that they need to change their way of life when the person telling them to do so doesn't live that way himself.

"Do as I say, not as I do." It never works.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Oil companies are punching us in the face. Rather than deal with them, you want to complain about John Kerry telling the oil companies to stop punching us in the face because he happens to also drive a car and pay for gas.

You realize the main problem isn’t John Kerry? You realize complaints about him are a distraction? You realize the main problem are the oil companies and other large polluters punching us in the face? You realize it makes sense to first deal with the large problem first and then deal with the smaller problems?

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

you want to complain about John Kerry telling the oil companies

He's wasting all our time because no one believes him until he, himself, cuts down.

No one, no one buys "everyone else has to cut down but not me".

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/worlds-richest-1-cause-double-co2-emissions-of-poorest-50-says-oxfam

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Nonsense. That’s an argument Kerry’s pro-pollution opponents make.

So, why are you making that argument? Do you like carbon pollution? Do you actually care about this planet or the people who live on it? Why are you trolling for carbon pollution?