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The memes of the climate
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Planet is on fire!
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Capitalists: Climate change is your fault and here's an exhaustive list of every little thing a normal person does and how it negatively impacts the environment
You: fails to either learn to photosynthesize, or starve to death
Capitalists: Ugh, I can't believe you would do this to the environment! This is all your fault!
Here it is, blaming emissions on capitalism again though plenty of non capitalist societies were just as poor for the environment within the context of their time. Just because in your preferred system you think you could force through the changes you want does not mean that that is a better system. What makes you think you will be in power or in the majority? If your preferred system is decentralized, that requires a lot of education, the same type that could literally solve this issue with the current system. If your system only works with massive amounts of education and trust, it cannot scale.
Maybe we should focus on the task at hand instead of trying to focus on radical change that will likely make the problem much worse before it gets better. You are literally making the situation worse because you are turning people against actual progress over your ideology.
Emissions based regulations are completely achievable and capitalist. It's called addressing an externality. Additionally, avoiding the tragedy of the commons requires international treaties which take time, economic alignment, and robust demand on all sides.
Yes, that's my whole point. They put the blame on us to distract us from enacting regulations with teeth. I'm not a hardcore socialist, just don't like billionaires and companies lobbying to keep laws in their favor while simultaneously blaming us for everything.
But then those are not capitalists. That's just anti environmentalism. Your language does not win you allies.