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Spoiler alert: if we weren't 8 billion and fertilized our crops with fossil fuels, then we wouldn't need that much fossil energy...
Yes, it's you. It's me. It's your 5 kids. The oil didn't pump itself out of the ground and set itself on fire for fun.
It's your plane trip, it's your military, it's your proxy wars.
Whenever I see posts like this, I really don't understand if people really think they produce oil/gas/fuel/food packaging, etc. for themselves.
If someone offers a money for a product, there will be someone else willing to sell it to you. You are the consumer.
Think of it like this - a electricity company generates electricity, as much as it's needed for current demand. I'm the final consumer, the demander, the reason infrastructure exists. And I shall be happy burning my RTX 5080 while looking into ACs to cool the room from that PC at the same time, hitting 2kW usage just so I can do nothing and game, because who cares. I tried living green, but when you see MFs producing more footprint in their shitty trucks in a day than you do in a month using Ebike, and people still decide to blame some placeholder instead of our own society and way of living, then it's quite clear nothing will change and it's a lost cause.