I suspect its popular in part, because it feels like fixing "the problem" without actually having to change your own behaviour at all. Don't need to change my gas guzzler, or fly less, or change your diet. I support the goal, but worry its a distraction. https://tuhat.net/@sbr/p/change-for-the-climate
> or change your diet. That part reads like parody. The changes on the individual consumer side do the least. They are just a deflection from what actually needs to be done - regulations and enforcement over industrial polluters.
I actually linked a whole article about this point. Yes BP popularised personal carbon footprint to deflect responsibility. But actually in yge short term dramatically reducing methane is one of the most impactful things we can do as while it has a short half life its 80x more impactful than carbon. And the majority of methane comes from agriculture.
We are no longer at the point of do x instead of y. We need to do it all, put fossil fuel comapnies out of business and change your diet.