Yes, let's focus of men vs women instead of individuals vs corporations.
I thought we were past this "it's the individuals fault despite corporations producing the vast, vast majority" bullshit.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Care to give some citations? Cause a large chunk of greenhouse gas emissions can be chalked up to individual choices. Eating meat (14% of ghg ) and driving (16% of ghg in us) being the top two. I guess you could argue it's the auto corporations fault for lobbying congress against investing in public transport, but no one is forcing you to eat meat.
I understand corporations are the biggest problem for the planet but you can't just put it all on them and not look at the ways your lifestyle is also contributing to climate change. Even if we nationalized every major polluting company and somehow got them to net zero we'd still have a problem if everyone is driving a huge pickup truck everywhere and eating beef everyday.
And who lobbies for lower emissions regulations so that they can sell bigger polluting trucks while consumers constantly say "where's my small car?"? Who lobbies the government to give them subsidies that make the meat so cheap that it's the best option for the consumer vs plant based protein?
Everything a person could do in these instances is being done in the opposite direction 1000x more and you sit here and go "but people!"
But sure, I'll just whip out my checkbook and lobby some politicians and change this myself. And I'll eat less meat while the people going to the climate conferences all fly their own private jets to it and create more pollution in a day than I will in a lifetime. That'll really show em!
Who is buying the products from those corporations though? I totally agree that the problem is caused by corporations but afaik there are only two ways to get them to make better choices: governmental regulation or avoid buying products from the bad offenders. Regulation can only go so far when all the companies have factories in another country. Individuals need to avoid buying products from those companies and shift to the ones that are more environmentally conscious, but that means having an informed populace that has extra money to spend, so we’re fucked.
No. Individuals make up <1% on their own. You want to make a difference? Target the 99%. This is just bullshit propaganda like telling us recycling is our duty instead of corporations producing less junk.
Interesting, although I'd be even more interested to know how it varies across countries, the gender differences in France are pretty different to say, Norway or Saudi Arabia.
I'm surprised it's that low. In the US, at least, men drive ~60% more than women (which is also the real reason that car insurance costs more for men).
Men are also heavily socialized (and propagandized) to believe it is manly to eat lots of meat.
Would riding a cow help or hurt?