I feel like my feed is everyone arguing that "climate change isn't a personal responsibility, look at these rich assholes and capitalist structures!!!"

My friends, it is both.

Yeah, the rich are causing the most damage, but the so-called western lifestyle of cheap consumer goods, foreign produce, high meat consumption, jetsetting, and a whole lot of other things are absolutely unsustainable as it is much less if that level of luxury was extended to the other 7 billion people on the planet.

You (yes you, personally, the individual) have to cut back, and you have to convince your friends to do the same.

If we applied this to something like basic ass white feminism, it would be like saying "why should I stop being a womanizer when there's period poverty and the glass ceiling?" You have to do the right thing for yourself and others as you simultaneously try to undo the macro or structural injustices.

@hakan_geijer

There are many dishonest people (Lifestyles As Usual Folk [LSAUF]), that have heard about climate change, that really are to blame for intentionally making it far more difficult to mitigate climate change.

E.g., the fossil fuel industries & their many business associates. The "consumers" that generally ignore how to reduce their own ecological foot prints (& carry on polluting & voting as usual)

LSAUF also blame other people.

Solution qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/

@SteveJonesnono1

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