silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · edit-22 个月前What if Everyone Did Something to Slow Climate Change? Researchers are looking at the impact that individuals’ actions can have on reducing carbon emissions — and the best ways to get people to adoptwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down130
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minus-squareUsernameHere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 个月前I’m not discouraging anyone from changing their habits. I am pointing out why the fossil fuel industry is paying marketing firms to come into threads like this and say the same things you are saying: Because focusing on individual carbon footprint requires 100% of the world to just do the right thing in order to fix a small part of the problem. While focusing on systemic change requires the voting majority, which is closer to 25% of the population. To fix 100% of the problem.
I’m not discouraging anyone from changing their habits.
I am pointing out why the fossil fuel industry is paying marketing firms to come into threads like this and say the same things you are saying:
Because focusing on individual carbon footprint requires 100% of the world to just do the right thing in order to fix a small part of the problem.
While focusing on systemic change requires the voting majority, which is closer to 25% of the population. To fix 100% of the problem.