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Saving the planet (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by lawrence@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes… overall regular people cause about 1/5th of it…

…But like 57 companies do ALL the rest. Seems a lot more simple we just stop electing Rs and neo-libs, and get laws passed that stop the major contributors, rather than preach to people who - if asked to sacrifice more than they already do (and shouldn’t have to if we first just target the major contributors who can afford to sacrifice much more easily) - will be easier for reactionaries to preach to (for example, see what happened with the Carter administration asking for regular folks to “sacrifice” driving their cars then paving the way for Reagan to de-regulate further)

So both strategically and more effectively, we should target those companies with legislative efforts rather than shitting on Bon Jovi for telling people “let’s save the environment” right before he belts out another rendition of “It’s my life.”

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 3 months ago

Oh absolutely, the meme is stupid for sure. it's just redirecting the public to think that it's not a huge deal. My point is that we're not "off the hook" because other people are worse. Even just at 20%, we should actively work to become greener, and those are incremental. Think about a heat pump instead of a gas furnace (or maybe a dual fuel). Think about taking the bus or walking vs driving. Etc etc."

However, the focus should be absolutely on the major polluters, those people are assholes and should be held accountable. In my book, things like the hurricane in Texas or the tornadoes across the midwest were directly because of the oil companies - and they should be held accountable for the destruction they allowed to happen.