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Yeah, I'm done with this article. If you want to make me feel less doomed, start blaming the corporations responsible and demanding actual action from the top down.
If you're opening with some "individual responsibility" bullshit, you're contributing to the apathy problem, because fuck you I can't fix this.
Your part is not thinking how to reduce your carbon footprint but organizing with other people and partecipating in collective actions or movements or whatever.
Your small part may be even just donating 10€ to the people needing legal help cause protesting. Or just showing up to a rally. Joining a union…
I think that just liberals think we should all try to reduce our carbon footprint so there is really no need to feel guilty about that on this server ;)
Can you explain to me why folks shouldn't bother trying to emit less carbon? I don't understand why they should feel good about donating 10€ but not do other things within their control. Like sure if you exist in a city and rent somewhere you have no control over, and already train/bike/walk and aren't wasteful and don't eat much meat, there's not much else you can reasonably do on a personal level, but many don't bother to do most of that. I'm in the US, maybe this is my bubble, but the waste is obscene - so many folks should also do better on a personal level assuming they care enough to do anything else.
I’m not saying they shouldn’t, just talking about priorities :)
I’m also playing the “being less dependent on capitalism” game but I recognize that it’s an uphill battle and most of the people don’t have time nor energy like me.
On an individual level I’d say the most important thing is taking back our time and cognitive energy to unlock other possibilities.
If you have time and energy yes, lower your footprint, help people around you do the same, get healthier, get powerful, be more resilient and so on. If you are a normal person with limited time and energy focus on wellbeing and even just putting one inch of support on the stuff I said earlier because the number of people at rallies and strikes really matters.