Nah Americans need to do better
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GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 months agoWhat a bullshit blanket rude comment. Lots of folks in the US are working hard to affect change at their personal and local level. You should edit your comment because it’s nationalistic and disparaging.
blazera@lemmy.world 4 months ago
KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 4 months ago
A picture of emissions per capita
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Again that doesn’t change shit. My point is that a nation is not a monolith.
You wouldn’t make a statement like they did about a race, or a people from another country, so it isn’t appropriate here either.
Belastend@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Are we calling out the saudi arabian assholes here aswell?
KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m comfortable saying yes to that
Belastend@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Based
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Don’t leave out Australia and Canada, since Australia is worse and Canada is next on the list after the USA.
Go ahead and tell everybody how Australia, USA, and Canada are such bad countries.
Meanwhile, with the freedom afforded to me as a land owner in the USA I work from home, harvest solar energy with solar panels to run my electronics, and am growing my own produce and eggs in a backyard farm. As an individual I’m probably doing more for the environment than most people reading this whole Lemmy post.
KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Lol. Check your privilege.
A. Do a carbon footprint analysis of your life, if it’s above 2,5 tons coe/year you’re a net burden on the planet. My country is as well, although considerably lower than the US.
B. It is possible for you to be a paragon of environmentalism and still live in a country with inefficient systems for water, infrastructure, zoning, industry and food production. Not to mention live in a culture of unsustainable lifestyle. Many Chinese or Indian persons are simply too poor to have a major impact on the environment, but their national industrial practices drive up the average pollution to levels comparable to the US (although still lower). Most US people aren’t as poor, and also have shitty industry standards, and also the means to change that without losing your standing internationally.
C. Multiple countries are shitty, in fact most of the non-developing world countries are a net burden.
D. As opposed to the other countries at the top, the US has had the economy, data, and access to resources to be able to something about it for generations, whereas most have had half the time and considerable need of modernising.
E. The US is much larger than the other countries, and could with quite simple measures make great impact and help pressure other great polluters.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I checked my privilege, and found that it was cool. I don’t have a carbonometer to check the other stuff so you can work on that if you want.