Oh shit thank you for reminding me. This idea that it’s our individual responsibility to prevent climate change rather than our largest producers/manufactures was a goddamn marketing ploy in the 1920s. It was spear headed by disposable companies like Dixie as people were getting more upset about littering, the public thought companies making one use items was incredibly wasteful and the reason for an abundance of litter in city areas. With the companies PR efforts, they were able to convince the general public that it’s not the producers of the litter that cause the problem, but the people who use it. We had a chance to kill the disposable industry and we missed it, I hope it comes back around some day.
Yup, and they’ve been doing it ever since, like how carbon footprint is a con made up by BP to shift responsibility to consumers (and they get people to pay extra for this shit, they’re making more money off it), same with recycling, which mostly doesn’t even get recycled. The whole thing is smoke and mirrors to keep us at pointing our finger and anger at the people actually responsible.
