ComEd: burns millions of tons of fossil fuels every year to sell us electricity.
BP: woopsies millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Every shipping company: burns millions of barrels of bunker fuel transporting shit from one place to another place that could have just made the stuff right there.
Every EcoWarrior on the internet: run your drier until your clothes are only damp, trench crotch is a sacrifice for the planet. Balance the lawn chairs you bought at home depot on your bicycle, man, no one needs a car cause they’re bad for the environment.
I understand you’re joking, but the amount of people who still don’t understand the sheer scale of modern pollution is staggering. What any private individual does, unless they start forest fires as a hobby, is a drop in the bucket compared to what mega corporations do on a daily basis.
I get your point but who do you think those corporations are burning fossil fuels for?
Who do you think is subsidizing all of the oil and gas industries that produce the artificially cheap fossil fuels that we burn for energy?
Even if we were all to reduce how much we use, these corporations will still use fossil fuels because large governments are the ones subsidizing it as an energy source. That will buy us a few more years, yeah. But throwing a water bottle at a forest fire isn’t a solution.
Until governments start actually requiring green energy, and subsidize its production to the same extent they do for fossil fuels, we’ll never see any change. The only thing your average person can do is vote for someone who at least says they’ll do that. Reducing your individual carbon footprint is just corporate propaganda to shift blame from their industries and political bribery lobbying to the consumer.
We need to actually implement solutions, and no one is going to do that unless governments step up and fork over the laws and cash needed to do that. Letting companies buy “carbon credits” and all of this shit we’re doing to make ourselves feel better is just song and dance.