• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There’s this temptation to believe that global warming is only caused by a very small group of unrepentant greedy assholes, when the fact of the matter is that it really is a systemic issue caused by essentially everyone in a moderately developed country.

    Sure, most emissions can be traced to a handful of companies, but we’ve quite recently seen what happens when the price of gas spikes even a little bit and people lose their god damn minds. Companies go for cheap polluting practice because consumers demand everything be as cheap as possible.

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      1 year ago

      I read part of a book about grocery stores and it used the term “perpetuator”. It’s not all our fault and we cannot let the corps place all the blame on us, and we can’t place all the blame on the large corps either. We are all perpetuators of the system, some bigger than others. Everyone has a part to do to fix this.