An #EarthDay reminder that despite what governments, militaries, and oil, plastic and chemical companies would have you believe, you didn't break the world. The treat you bought yourself, your drive to work, the flight to see your aging parents. They didn't break it, and eliminating them will not save it.
Individual reduction is great. It feels good, and I would never discourage it for its own sake. But individual responsibility for environmental degradation is an intentional and damaging lie.
@ianrosewrites We should enjoy nice things while we still can, nobody in power wants to stop the rot and actually build the better future, so do things now you will savour in 20 years when it's all swept away by the Climate
@Lazarou No, I can't agree with that either. We are at the point in history where we get to decide whether we face a 2.5C or 4C future, and those are vastly different. Both involve a lot of suffering, but one is survivable for large swaths of the world and one isn't.
We have to think at the scale of the problem. That's not nearly the same thing as giving up.
@ianrosewrites well you're just arguing against your own opening statement there so I'll just leave you to it.