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HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 16 hours agoMany of those are much more difficult for most people to do, are of questionable benefit or they already do.
Refuse to give them money, it is the only language they understand.
Steve@communick.news 16 hours ago
If you play the “vote with your wallet” game, the biggest wallet wins.
Who’s wallet is bigger?
athatet@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
If I vote with my wallet and stop buying pizza. And I get my friends to do the same. And they get their friends to do the same. Then I don’t think it really matters the size of the wallet. Are billos suddenly going to start buying up all the pizza to make up for it? I doubt it.
Steve@communick.news 16 hours ago
Now you’re organizing, like I suggested. But as you said that’s very difficult. And that’s even the more difficult goal to organise around.
Part of the fossil fuel play book in the 80’s and 90’s, was the idea of the "Individual Carbon Footprint’. They created that idea, specifically to shift the burden of climate change from them, to the consumer. They did so because they new the collective action need to make change that way, was far more difficult than pushing lawmakers to change the laws.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
Is my message here not a part of organising?