‘Net zero hero’ myth unfairly shifts burden of solving climate crisis on to individuals, study finds

Climate issues have always been pushed down to the individuals. The people are asked to recycle and meanwhile corporations have zero ramificationsfor polluting endlessly.

Actually even worse look at wells and unclosed wells, some corporations will drill then just leave the mess to everyone else.
Starbucks CEO or someone was taking a private jet to the office. I mean, seriously what in the living fuck.
- I mean, seriously what in the living fuck.
  That's just the tip of the iceberg
  https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-emit-more-carbon-pollution-90-minutes-average-person-does-lifetime

Companies invented single use packaging - blamed the consumers for polluting the environment.

Consumers then paid for garbage disposal.

Companies did nothing wrong.

This spiral continues with everything.

Companies make people dependent on something by eliminating all alternatives, this turns out to be bad for the environment and suddenly the people are the bad ones.

Edit: there’s this thing in Germany called Rorax, which cleans your pipes. The 100% natural ingredients variant costs exactly the same as the microplastic thing. The only difference is that the natural one needs to sit at least 6 hours while the other one can do it in 2. I opted for the environmentally friendly option.

Shh, you must be wracked with guilt because of all of your sins. Think about all the privilege one enjoys in first-world countries because corporations have single-handedly solved all of the world's problems. /s

Well, yeah, just like carbon footprints, household recycling, plastic straws, and so so many more of these eco-nonsense trends - distractions designed and spread by those actually destroying the planet for their own personal gain, to get us to crab in a bucket each other, instead of turn on them.

You guys are all acting like these things are pointless. They do have minute environmental benefits but their real use is to trick me into believing things will be OK. Otherwise I would lose my mind over how ridiculously suicidal our collective behavior is. That is a very valuable service they provide to me personally. I enjoy what little of my sanity remains to me.

I wonder if there is a way to actually empower individuals when it comes to environmental issues, like if each of us had some kind of right to the various resources we lived near. For example, experts might determine that there's only so much water that could be sustainably extracted from a given source in a year. Well, just divide that amount among the people who depend on that source and ration representative credits to them. To get water from that source, one would have to be paid for with a corresponding amount of credits. People can sell the credits they don't need to anyone who wants extra. Water intensive operations like hydraulic fracturing or pistachio farming would cease to get their water for free. They'd have to directly compensate the people for using this resource by buying water credits. The idea would probably crash the economy, since capitalism depends on cheap access to natural resources.

If it's up to each and every one of us to solve pollution, then we individuals need to get together and take down the highest polluters, through collective action (and hopefully not violence, but allegedly Luigi has shown us its effectiveness when everything else doesn't work).

The problem is we have done nothing about making businesses responsible for the mess they create, from CO2 to pollution. The public always ends up with the bill while private owners walk away rich. We have been doing it this way now for so long that we are genuinely going to destroy our habitat with climate change and no one is going to stop it happening.

Not news so much as bloody obvious olds.

Same problem with the dipshits who say "hey, you can get vaccinated and wear a mask if you want".

You go next zero to save the world.

I go next zero to survive the apocalypse.

We are not the same.