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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

I have a bicycle and a train flatrate, never needed a car except for moving where Ihad to rent a small truck anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Sure, for most of my life I didn't have a car either. But that's not really the point. Some life circumstances are outside your own control. The point I poorly tried to make was more that people are driven by their current circumstances. Climate change is a systemic problem. You can't rely on people reactively fixing climate change 8 billion times in their own little yard. It just won't happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

My point was that if individuals make up for less emission non-individual actors will automatically make up for more of the total emissions, so the screenshotted post is kind of silly.

I'm sure there will probably be no substantial change (at least in time) if we just let consumers decide, but that doesn't except them from being responsible for driving around in child-killing, cancer-inducing, environment-destroying and fossil-fuel-wasting private tanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

The point of the screenshot comment is that we are not focusing on the right things when discussing climate change.

There are lots of issues with SUVs but to say that some end product is the real cause of the problem (talking about climate change, not cancer here) is just inaccurate. It is the tremendous industry that was built, the associated physical assets, and the associated economic and financial incentives.