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Yes, ordering cheap, disposable shit from Temu is bad for the environment
It doesn't change the fact that fossil fuel and mining companies are bad for the environment too
Assuming, just for the sake of it, she'd be totally right: I'd still prefer the ideological - yet dumb - zoomer over any boomer that absolutely knows the truth yet decides to fuck it anyway. And then gets quoted in a "magazine" that's owned by the biggest temu-shopper of all time. But again, it's little Kevin's and Jacqueline's fault with their disgusting tries to save money.
Exactly, we're supposed to get stuff from big box stores that even have an even bigger shipping carbon footprint, but supports their shareholders.
If a useless middleman isn't profiting, have you really done commerce? What is this, communism?
And buy the stuff that they order directly from the same stores Temu sends from but with markup.
Almost like a carbon tax would help realize the costs to the environment that overseas shipping and energy usage causes.
Not any whataboutism there
I feel a certain amount of schadenfreude every time I see someone finding out that propaganda doesn't actually produce real convictions.
... Wouldn't online shopping be vastly better for the environment? Getting cheap Chinese junk into a market probably has the same climate impact no matter how it was bought, but a single delivery driver going to a few dozen houses is better than a few dozen cars on the road. Although i guess that's from my experience in a demon country that makes it impossible to go places on foot.
The people going to a store usually aren't only buying one thing and people probably wouldn't buy as much garbage if it weren't easy to buy from the Internet so I'm not sure this is an apples to apples comparison. Also not everyone going to a store are driving.