Care to give some citations? Cause a large chunk of greenhouse gas emissions can be chalked up to individual choices. Eating meat (14% of ghg ) and driving (16% of ghg in us) being the top two. I guess you could argue it’s the auto corporations fault for lobbying congress against investing in public transport, but no one is forcing you to eat meat.
I understand corporations are the biggest problem for the planet but you can’t just put it all on them and not look at the ways your lifestyle is also contributing to climate change. Even if we nationalized every major polluting company and somehow got them to net zero we’d still have a problem if everyone is driving a huge pickup truck everywhere and eating beef everyday.
And who lobbies for lower emissions regulations so that they can sell bigger polluting trucks while consumers constantly say “where’s my small car?”? Who lobbies the government to give them subsidies that make the meat so cheap that it’s the best option for the consumer vs plant based protein?
Everything a person could do in these instances is being done in the opposite direction 1000x more and you sit here and go “but people!”
But sure, I’ll just whip out my checkbook and lobby some politicians and change this myself. And I’ll eat less meat while the people going to the climate conferences all fly their own private jets to it and create more pollution in a day than I will in a lifetime. That’ll really show em!
People aren’t driving big cars and eating meat because there are no other options or it’s too expensive. There are plenty of other options, and its more expensive to buy an SUV or eat meat, they choose to because they like it and don’t know or care about the climate costs.
Care to give some citations? Cause a large chunk of greenhouse gas emissions can be chalked up to individual choices. Eating meat (14% of ghg ) and driving (16% of ghg in us) being the top two. I guess you could argue it’s the auto corporations fault for lobbying congress against investing in public transport, but no one is forcing you to eat meat.
I understand corporations are the biggest problem for the planet but you can’t just put it all on them and not look at the ways your lifestyle is also contributing to climate change. Even if we nationalized every major polluting company and somehow got them to net zero we’d still have a problem if everyone is driving a huge pickup truck everywhere and eating beef everyday.
And who lobbies for lower emissions regulations so that they can sell bigger polluting trucks while consumers constantly say “where’s my small car?”? Who lobbies the government to give them subsidies that make the meat so cheap that it’s the best option for the consumer vs plant based protein?
Everything a person could do in these instances is being done in the opposite direction 1000x more and you sit here and go “but people!”
But sure, I’ll just whip out my checkbook and lobby some politicians and change this myself. And I’ll eat less meat while the people going to the climate conferences all fly their own private jets to it and create more pollution in a day than I will in a lifetime. That’ll really show em!
On a Honda or Toyota lot, there are still plenty of small affordable, fuel efficient cars to be bought in the US, people just aren’t buying them and are choosing to pay twice as much for an SUV
It’s not, the cheapest diet there is is rice and beans, and you can buy those at literally any store that sells food. Beans are half the price per grams of protein compared to chicken, way less compared to beef and pork. .
People aren’t driving big cars and eating meat because there are no other options or it’s too expensive. There are plenty of other options, and its more expensive to buy an SUV or eat meat, they choose to because they like it and don’t know or care about the climate costs.
Bro, did you seriously compare small sedans to a small pickup that people are actually asking for?
…I’d continue this but it’s clear your comprehension is lacking.