I’m not going to have kids so I feel like I can drive whatever because my carbon footprint ends with me. I’m also fairly fatalistic about climate change. Humans are too stupid to stop it and when enough of us die the problem will solve itself.

[–] bzxt@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The main culprits are the big oil companies. They made the carbon footprint term to make us feel guilty and shift the blame from the biggest polluters.

[–] r3nder@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep! And I bet it'll turn out in a few decades that it will come out they were also behind the Doomerism we're seeing a lot of on social media these days. "Well it's too late so why try?" Is much more comfortable than "We have to sacrifice a lot of comfort, but if we all try really hard we can do it."

Weird thought, you ever think oil executives have nightmares about a global collective wanting to bring them to the guillotine?

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They made the decisions that got us here, they have the power to turn this around, but we are to sacrifice everything while they continue to live in luxury and do nothing to help? Does this seriously seem reasonable to you?

[–] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The main culprit is likely the US military, except that they don't allow themselves to be monitored.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed they corrupted the narrative to avoid blame, to maintain profits.

But who are they selling the oil to? Us.

We are all sinners in this

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

All sinners, yep. Cool story buddy.