"You can’t solve the problem at a personal level" - not sure what it means to you to "solve the problem". On a personal level, all I can do is minimize my own emissions and remind other people it's worth the same.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What I mean is that reducing personal consumption makes effectively no difference to the situation at large. On a personal level, you can organize with other people and demand systemic change. Focusing on minimizing personal emissions is just a ritual which makes you feel better about yourself without actually achieving anything meaningful.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Total emissions is a function of how many people contribute. If you want to show numbers, you can but you don't have to.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I literally did show you numbers above. The link I've provided explains how just 100 companies amount to over 70% of all emissions. Environmental destruction a function of how capitalist society operates. Companies exist to make profit, and externalizing environmental damage is a way for them to cut costs. Changing economic incentives for how large scale industry operates is the only way to create different outcomes.

Individual people have to live within the framework of their society, and they have little they can do at that level. For example, if the society is structured around car culture, then most people end up having to drive to work. There is no other option unless adequate public transit infrastructure is provided. Similarly you have to buy goods you need in your daily life, and you have no control over how these goods are produced. Focusing on individual action is a liberal delusion. Systemic problems require systemic solutions.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"have to live within", "they have little they can do", "structured around car culture", "no other option", "you have no control", "liberal delusion". I suspected you had a pro-O&G political lense and this confirms it. You're trying way too hard pal. Don't bother to vote. Your personal effort won't count.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Claiming that I'm pro-O&G when I keep saying we need to get industry under control shows that you lack even a shred of intellectual integrity. What I keep telling you repeatedly, and you just keep ignoring being the troll that you are, is that meaningful action involves organizing and demanding systemic change instead of doing performative action. The fact that you think voting is the pinnacle of political participation really highlights just how lost you are. Smug, ignorant liberals like you are the reason the world is burning.