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.
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.
It does make me wonder if there’s a lot of people who read these pieces, I assume most people just tune them out completely, nobody wants to know how their CO2 fart emissions contribute to global warming. It’s background noise, I’m not even sure if it’s a good driver for clicks. Sorry to “The Weed Witch” author Sophie Saint Thomas but this is probably the first time anyone has actually even come as close as analyzing this piece, like this small board is probably the most attention it will receive. Ever.
A lot of well meaning NPR listening liberals take recycling very seriously.
some liberals out there be very anxious about their individual consumer choices. Even media consumption!
Perenial reminder that positioning individual consumer choices as important to or even relevant to dealing with global warming is a literal oil industry psyop to keep us arguing about stupid shit like this instead of banning plastics
While individual consumer choice isn’t a solution, it still doesn’t hurt if we all helped a bit and rawdogged once in a while.
Come and take it :hammer-and-vibe:
fucking is bourgeois
