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Yes, Actually, Individual Responsibility Is Essential to Solving the Climate Crisis (www.sierraclub.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A fixation on system change alone opens the door to a kind of cynical self-absolution that divorces personal commitment from political belief. This is its own kind of false consciousness, one that threatens to create a cheapened climate politics incommensurate with this urgent moment.

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Because here’s the thing: When you choose to eat less meat or take the bus instead of driving or have fewer children, you are making a statement that your actions matter, that it’s not too late to avert climate catastrophe, that you have power. To take a measure of personal responsibility for climate change doesn’t have to distract from your political activism—if anything, it amplifies it.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

"70% of fossil fuel emissions come from corporations"

"That number attributes your personal emissions to corporations, you should also try to lower your personal impact."

"Why would I lower my personal impact, the corporations are responsible for 70% of all emissions!"

Lol come on now, at least engage with the fucking argument and facts smh

[–] UsernameHere 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

So you’re saying you’re plan is for individuals to choose the choice that is not an option?

You’re saying the solution is for everyone to stop using electricity?

Stop driving to work and earning money is the solution?

Buy solar panels without a house to put them on?

This is why the individual carbon foot print doesn’t matter. Because it is a systemic problem. So the large majority of people don’t have the luxury of being able to reduce their carbon footprint. And it is such a small percentage to begin with.

This is why BP is paying a marketing firm to convince the public to focus on their individual carbon footprint.

We need systemic change not paper straws.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Maybe I was overly harsh earlier, I saw elsewhere in the thread that you are vegan. So am I , and I'm sure you've heard the "I didn't kill any animals, the farms did" or "the meat at the store is already killed" or "I'll go vegan when eating meat is illegal" and I'm not sure how you reconcile the two.

[–] UsernameHere 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ve never heard those comments and I don’t know what point you are trying to make with them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Either you're not vegan or you haven't had many conversations trying to convince others to go vegan lol

[–] UsernameHere 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m vegan and have had many conversations trying to convince others to go vegan. The only thing I commonly hear is “where do you get your protein”?

I still don’t know what point you’re trying to make.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like the parallels between the stupid shit carnists say and your comments are obvious, but maybe you're operating on some Idealist level of logic I'm too utilitarian to follow.

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