fix-all-the-things

fix-all-the-things t1_jblooci wrote

Stop being an idiot. Many of those politicians and celebrities can't fly on regular planes like the rest of us. There would be too many people causing problems with them. There's no other options available to them.

You're also doing exactly what the oil companies want you to do. BP invented the personal carbon footprint after spending a lot of money researching ways to get people to stop being angry at them. The result is a way for you to look at your own carbon footprint as well as other individuals. This made it easy for you to find other targets that aren't oil companies for you to get your anger out on. You fell for it all too and now get your outrage fix whining about SUV's and personal jets which is very cathartic, then have nothing left for the actual polluters.

Oil companies invented plastic recycling too for the same reason. They knew public anger was growing against them so they hatched a very successful plan to divert that. They basically paid other countries to take our plastic and do whatever they wanted with it. We fell for that pretty hard as well and even had some politicians write laws forcing people to participate in the scam.

If you actually want to help make things better, leave individuals out of it. SUV's are not a problem. Personal jets are not a problem. By spending energy on those targets you're giving the actual polluters a huge break and making it easy for them to do nothing.

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fix-all-the-things t1_j4hf02h wrote

You should also stop eating bananas, quinoa, and a fairly large list of other agricultural products that are loaded with human rights abuses, human slavery, and child exploitation because they don't deserve that either.

I'm going to guess though that you're one of those people who doesn't give a good god damn about human suffering because of how obsessed you are over animal suffering. One day we will actually see people getting screamed at in public for eating a banana just like they do for meat products, but it'll probably be a while before the woke community decides humans are worth protecting.

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fix-all-the-things t1_izcbgxo wrote

That's definitely the solution. Use politicians and regulation to force others to follow your own personal beliefs. Where have we seen that before?

Those subsidies exist for a lot of very good and very valid reasons.

This is why so many people hate vegans. You're no different than evangelicals who ram their beliefs onto others using the law and regulation. While it would be helpful to reduce the consumption of 1 or 2 types of meat of the many types of meat that exist, completely giving it up is an extremist belief that is nowhere near necessary.

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fix-all-the-things t1_ir3h9il wrote

This wasn't a thing until big tobacco got into the vape business with Juul which have massive amounts of nicotine. Before Juul we used 6mg/ml nicotine juice, 3 mg/ml, or zero nicotine. Kids made fun of anyone who vaped and it was a source of endless memes about how lame vapers were.

Once big tobacco released highly addictive vapes with 59 mg/ml of nicotine that all changed and a whole lot of kids got hooked.

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