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Conclusion of the article sums it up best:

"Our true responsibility is to use our choices as political agents in the world to try to shift power, take power away from the people who are blocking the transition away from fossil fuels and give it to people who will lead into a livable future," [Genevieve Guenther, the author of “The Language of Climate Politics”] said.

Do what you can by yourself, sure, but only as a supplement to doing the hard work to solve the problem via collective and political action.

That’s cool, could we also compare that to what would happen if the wealthy and corporations also put in their fair share of individual action too?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/business/starbucks-ceo-commute-jet-brian-niccol.html

Don’t forget, that he could just move like the rest of the employees had to.

What if every company did something?

If the one thing is redacted a billionaire, you would only need 3200 people.

Sounds good. I'll start by telling all my corporations that blast the majority of CO2 emissions worldwide into the air to slow it down a bit.

Amen!

My gas stove was leaky and could have blown up my house. So we replaced that with an induction stove, and it's all around a better experience. Same with the water heater and the EV. All of these things plus insulating the attic have been improvements to our lives with the added benefit of reducing natural gas consumption more than 20% over the past year and saving about $100/month on utilities and gasoline. It's nice that we aren't pumping air pollution directly into our house when we cook anymore.

Every bit of change we make helps, because the climate crisis is not binary. but more importantly the people who can make these changes receive the greatest upfront benefits.

Free solar panels for everyone.

Free heat pumps for everyone.

We need everyone on free clean electricity now and cut all natural gas lines to homes, businesses and factories. Nothing else comes close to the impact of those and it will drive a change in other sectors like transportation when there is free clean electricity everywhere.

What if everybody did something to slow or reverse climate change? Like organize democratically to overthrow capitalism.

A better standard of living could be achieved with 30% of current production because of how incredibly wasteful and redundant capitalist production is. That leaves a ton of headroom for treats, and we can still strike a metabolic balance with our planet.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7n1POfYMo1I3kcy0oqSm6l

I'm sorry but these things drive me bonkers angry

You can't ask billions of people to do shit whilst < 2700 billionaires refuse to do shit because they need their private jet to buy an apple. You can't ask me to do a huge thing with zero impact whilst oil companies actively sabotage every effort to improve the climate so that shareholders can get that extra dollar.

All who works for a big company and do all they shit for them are not better than the corporatives. Follow orders is a coise.

That's mostly a waste of time.

The big companies and massive organizations are the ones really doing the damage. This isn't really a tragedy of the commons.

But individuals do need to make the changes they can, because if every company and government did the right thing, we still wouldn't be all the way there. Climate is an impossibly big issue, and need everything and then a little bit more to get out of the mess.