Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed

Post by pas » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 6:22 PM UTC

pempem wrote: post #262

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There's nothing preventing us from living in a similarly 1-2% growing economy but with net zero GHG emissions. Yes, free resources lying around was amazing, but since then our economic surplus is abso-fucking-lutely enormous. We merely opt to allocate that on other things instead of decarbonizing. Eg. we spend it on silly things like paving half the world, giving everyone their own car, building small (actually gigan…

as far as I know, "we" are not paving the world. The average person is not spending millions and millions on a marketing plan to bring these ideas into the american and then global imagination.

Post by amai » Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 2:26 PM UTC

Post by birksherty » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

heurisko wrote: post #284

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What is exactly counterproductive? These children will suffer the consequences in coming years, better they don't have to.

It is productive to raise conscientious children who can meet challenges of the future. It will increase suffering, to remove the next generation of conscientious leaders, organisers, engineers, scientists.