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It forgot, “well there’s nothing we can do about it now!”
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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"but it's just the corporations' fault!"
And then call it socialism for wanting to hold them accountable
So many people absolutely refuse to change their own destructive habits and justify it with "corporations tho!" like they just pollute for fun and not to produce goods and services consumers buy.
Refusing to give them your money by changing your habits to be less destructive is a great way to hold them accountable, while advocating and voting for regulation of course.
While I get what you are saying, individual responsibility only gets us so far. We need societal-level change, and holding corporations accountable isn't just about reigning in their direct pollution. Corporations control what choices that we as consumers even have. Regulating them so that we can only pick from a variety of good choices -- or at least so that the bad choices are more expensive / effort -- has a much higher impact than getting individuals to make good choices when bad choices are easily available, cheaper, and easier.
This isn't funny. I'm not saying it's not good. I'm just saying I need to cry now.
This comic makes me want a benevolent alien life form to exterminate all humans and let evolution try again.
....or help us?
That's what they said?
If they've been watching us long enough they know that's a waste of time. About half the population of the US wouldn't believe in climate change if God himself said it was real.
I don't see why you would need an alien life form for that. Humans are doing it already.
Ah yes, the classic sort of aliens who exterminate other civilizations, being benevolent is of course how you'd characterize them.
Isn't there some guy testifying about UFOs in Congress this week? We can only hope aliens see earth as a rare and valuable resource that we're fucking up so maybe they'll take it from us.
A lot of politicians just chase distractions...
There's always some nutjob wanting to testify to congress about aliens, and nutjobs in office eager to get the important shit out of the news cycle.
Sounds accurate
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