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The memes of the climate

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The climate of the memes of the climate!

Planet is on fire!

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

While it’s everyone’s fault, there is very little consumers can do to actually help.

For example:

  • When every company is using single use plastics for certain products, you don’t have any alternatives.
  • When the local government doesn’t offer the ability to recycle, your options are limited.
  • Or worse, the local government offers recycling services, but the collected items are literally just dumped into the trash.

So while I again agree everyone is at fault, I’d say the consumer has vastly less overall control than any other entity.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

market won't regulate itself. that's established. EDIT: no way to "vote" with my wallet

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or apartments aren't mandated to have recycling. Or how oil corporations controlled anti-climate change propaganda, as well as Republicans. Or how corporations forced us to use oil to get to our jobs because there really was no public transportation alternative (particularly in America).

That makes this meme stupid, because consumers didn't have much control over big money buying everything or basically requiring the use of specific materials.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

So while I again agree everyone is at fault

no, only those in power and making profits are to blame, not the people trapped in their wealth extraction system with no choice but to participate or die.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

All consumers need to do is commit mass suicide /s

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

I mean, I think it would be cool if I could go into a store and buy a flash drive that wasn't surrounded by a mountain of plastic and other resources. Or replace that with just about everything else. Although we're at another wealth inequality problem in general (I can go vegan tomorrow, move to a commune where everything was made of hemp, and it will still probably take 100 of my lifetimes to offset the carbon footprint of Elon or Taylor Swift over the next week, or maybe even just hour) I do often think about the very nature of our system now is that goods sold are often going to come with at a bare minimum equal parts waste to product.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird how this equates the blame equally across all parties when it's pretty clear who needs to force who to not pollute

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

But the politicians that wants to do it don't get votes... People are weak and it makes democracy look the fool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

People keep bringing up people not voting while ignoring how gerrymandered our fuckin voting maps are

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (31 children)

Ask yourself "where is the greatest leverage to solve this problem?". If you think the fastest way to turn the climate ship around is to convince 7ish billion individuals to go vegan, and ride bikes... Good luck!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is just another way of saying it's on us poor people, which it really isn't.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was my fault for not turning off the water when I brush my teeth. Sorry guys.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Maui would have been just fine if I didn't put my sandwich in baggie for lunch. So sorry everyone!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If only we had a society where I could actually buy from companies that were green or vote for politicians that gave a fuck about anything but money. We're fucked. I'm just glad I'll be dead before the world melts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Humans in general!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

the sun: it was me lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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Above a set of three images is the title "CLIMATE CHANGE?" A photo of Broderick Stephen "Steve" Harvey Sr. with his hands raised, palms out and text above and below. The text above reads "Consumers:" and the text below reads '"Not my fault'". The second photo is a Capuchin monkey with its paws raised as if shrugging, and text above and below. The text above reads "Companies:" and the text below reads '"Not my fault"'. The last image is that of an otter half underwater with its fore-paws in the air as if at gunpoint, and text above and below. The text above reads "Politicians:" and the text below reads '"Not my fault"'

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[–] yoz 4 points 1 year ago

Lol everyone dies.

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

¯_(ツ)_/¯ Not my fault.

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

"Would you be upset if I told you we were dying? And every cure they gave us was a lie? Oh! They mean it when they say we're dead and doomed, and every single symptom brings us closer to the tomb, and who will take the credit for our swift impending fall? Because it's not my fault!

Would you be impressed if I said that the dead would help us counting every single moment that we waste our time? All the time we're spending vaccinating this disease, I just get dizzy when I think of all the ways we try to hide our maladies. We wine, we dine, and everything is fine, because it's not my fault"

"Would You Be Impressed?" by Streetlight Manifesto

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

It’s more like “it’s my fault, but I don’t really want to deal with that rn”

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

There is some truth to it if you consider consumers = voters.

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