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Seven in 10 Canadians worried about climate change, link it to extreme weather
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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Being worried does nothing at all.
How many of those 7 out of 10 are eating a plant based diet? Avoid using motor vehicles? Avoid flying and cruises? Buy secondhand goods whenever possible? Use clean energy?
We can all be "worried", but inaction at an individual level isn't helping the problem. Blaming corporations who pollute is only shifting blame, but we are all responsible for what's been happening, and what will happen, to our climate.
Action at the individual level does a great fuck-all when O&G companies are raping our planet for shareholder value at an accelerated rate.
That's the same argument as arguing as Canada doesn't have to do anything about climate change because China and India can fix it on their own with their bigger population. We have to make some changes on the individual level to be good role models and to pressure those same corporations
I disagree with the "blame all the individuals", but those O&G companies are destroying the planet because they have customers. Somebody buys the gasoline, the fertilizer that becomes cattle-feed, the airline-tickets that consume the fuel.
If demand dropped, so would their profits.
Individual x 8.1 billion = significant change.
Yes, some companies are just awful, but we are supporting them with our lifestyle. Our choices affect their bottom line, and often force them to do better (or worse) depending on how we spend our money.
Yeah, the method for those 8.1 bil to organize together to affect meaningful change exists already — it’s called countries passing laws to stop corporations.
Stop them from doing what? Providing goods and services to 8.1 billion people?
I refuse to believe that you’re this stupid.
Believe what you want, I guess. To spend my time on an Internet forum over doing something useful does necessarily require me to be quite stupid.
Tell us, how does raping the planet create shareholder value?