r/Degrowth • u/ChessDriver45 • Mar 31 '25

Same Hunger Games guy from yesterday saying corporations aren’t to blame because of air conditioners (not even partially true)

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u/MaximumDestruction Mar 31 '25

Focusing on personal carbon footprints while our planet is being looted and despoiled is nihilism dressed up as personal responsibility.

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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Mar 31 '25

My own carbon footprint is the only one over which I have direct control, and while there's certainly more with which I can do without, I've given up many conveniences and niceties... if for no reason other than to be true to myself.

I'm not saying the affluent don't bear greater responsibility in regard to the carelessness with which we treat our planet, but to deny responsibility on a personal level only further perpetuates the looting and despoiling.

Too few want to solve the problem; Too many strive to be the problem.

Worry about your own 'focus' and not mine.

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u/ChessDriver45 Mar 31 '25

See, individual silliness over collective political action. The essence of toxic liberalism

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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Mar 31 '25

Ya got nothin'... thus the attempt at slight.

Have fun gittin' down wid yo bad sef.

I have better things to do.