Looks like we’re gonna have to part ways with condoms, birth control, vibrators, and lube. There’s always :volcel-vanguard:
That whole post was wild. As it was “It’s weird that this is suddenly a thing… :thinking-about-it: “ followed by people who apparently always hate gas and stovetops with barely any mention of furnaces or hot water heating.
The furnaces and hot water heating are the main problem. Gas companies convinced people that gas stoves are better and they want them. And if you already have a gas stove you might as well use gas for your furnace and water heater too. And that increases gas use, more money for gas companies, more carbon for the air.
I’d have died several times in winter if we were electric only heating in the northern US.
there’s an even bigger contingent who are resistant to making any amount of minor changes to their lives, things that are going to be necessary if we ever get serious about climate change.
Individual consumer choices are not going to stop climate change. In fact let’s have an entire struggle session about how centering individual choices as a method of combatting climate change comes directly from a propaganda campaign funded by the oil industry to essentially sabotage any attempt at mitigating global warming because of silly culture wars like this. The oil industry reliably shuts down any serious discussion about global warming by keeping people made about gas stoves and hot showers and plastic vibrators instead of being mad about coal fired power plants.
Like I’m not trying to be a dick or anything, you are literally reproducing a propaganda campaign created by the oil companies to sabotage efforts to control climate change.
Seriously. The whole idea of individual consumer choice, individual carbon footprint, individually reducing energy use, they are all, literally, oil industry psyops, and even NPR admits it.
The gas stove thing isn’t just about individual choice though. Yes you switching from a gas to electric stove won’t change anything. But banning gas stoves in all new construction would.
