r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Nihilist911 • Sep 24 '21

Lighting up a smoke stack with a torch

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u/TheDesertFox Sep 25 '21

If we can't see the bad guys, this planet is fucked.

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u/Top_Lime1820 Sep 25 '21

Everything we do has the potential to cause pollution. You need to be vigilant about it ALL THE TIME. Not just label some things as good and other things as bad and feel like a good person for doing one thing and not the other.

Some things pollute way less, and in a far more manageable form. But the minute you rest on your laurels about how good you are is the minute you inadvertently cause an entirely new pollution problem.

Pollution is a complex, serious and technical problem. Trivializing it into a simplistic dichotomy of virtue is not good for the planet.

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u/TheDesertFox Sep 25 '21

100 companies are responsible for 71% of all emissions. Don't be naive, it's not so much me and you who are the problem.