I agree. It’s obvious to me that it will never be a tidy “it’s just them to blame” scenario but people really want it to be, regardless. I suspect the downvote crew will show up soon…
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faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 weeks agoI always hate that most people are happy to blame corporations, forgetting we are consuming that’s why corporations are creating.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
The corporations blame the consumer, the consumer blames the corporations and everyone gets to consume and profit blamelessly.
Ooops@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s a nice fairy tales to keep burning the planet.
In reality the main consumers are a handful of rich people including those owning the corporations and paying off politicians and media while 95% of the people would not consume anything if not forced to do it and are also contributing only a miniscule amount to the total consumption.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
The top 10% of people create something like 50% of the carbon footprint which means 90% of people create the rest of it.
No one’s blameless.
Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Not true. Our cars account for more than 15% of the problem. Our meat is about the same. With just those two things, we are over the 25% of the “factor 4” from Rio. It is oversimplified, but it gives the idea: if the Ultra richs stop polluting, we are still doomed if the rest of us doesn’t do something either.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
yeah, it is like blaming china for a pollution, when that pollution is externality of cheap shit we buy from them. it is our pollution in the end.
that isn’t an argument for blaming the end consumer, because that problem is not going to be solved from the bottom, but it is also childish to pretend like we, the consumers, are not complicit.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
You should read Terry Pratchett’s Boots Theory. Many people don’t have the option to pay more up front to consume less, if there is even an option to buy a more expensive but longer-lasting item in a given market any more.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
well many do and they will buy cheap shit anyway. and i am not talking about boots, i am talking about people who have a dog, which is clearly non-essential expense, and they buy him shitty toy from temu. is that rubber toxic? who knows, who cares, look how cheap it is!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well said