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hockeybub89 posted...

Crepes posted...

Butterfiles posted...

the personal responsibility movement is horseshit because corporations are responsible for 90% of the world's carbon emissions

Need to decide whether people in the west consume more because these corporations produce the goods or the corporations produce the goods because there is demand.

This is where the personal responsibility comes from. If there wasnt a demand these companies wouldnt produce the goods that go towards producing climate change.

Are people specifically demanding climate unfriendly goods though? Do cars run on gasoline because consumers hate electric? Are we demanding coal because we hate solar and nuclear? Do we demand that the factories that produce our goods pump out as much pollution as possible? That they dump their waste in the water supply?

You don't just have free rein to do whatever you want because "Welp people want things"

"There couldn't be pollution if people were still cool with a pre-industrial society! Personal responsibility!"

@hockeybub89

Good points. I guess the counter argument is the assumption that companies that move to more environmentally friendly production incur more costs that are passed on to the consumer and so the consumers opt to go for the cheaper products. One of the reasons why regulation might be required to jump start the move to more environmentally friendly production.

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