The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

  • VaidenKelsier@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bro you’re doing more than most of us, thank you.

    But yeah, our carbon footprint is minuscule in comparison to corporate footprints. We need them to fucking play ball.

    What’s more profitable: Exceptional profits for 30 years until civilization collapses, or sustainable profits forever?

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      1 year ago

      All I could think about when reading this post is corporate footprints. It’s great for us to all do our part, but sadly the corporations not doing their part is screwing everybody. We need more regulations on them, idc what product they’re making or how much profit they’d like or even how many people whine about not receiving that product it needs to stop.

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        1 year ago

        Honestly, corporate footprints is all that needs to be thought about when thinking about climate change.

        The shifting of blame to the individual or even putting it on the individual to “help” is avoiding the real issue. And even if individuals are contributing, which I acknowledge they are but at a much lower rate of impact, then probably the best way to change individual consumption/waste is once again by abolishing capitalism which guides the production of the material reality utilized to create such individual waste in the first place.

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          1 year ago

          Sure, but it’s our fault too, at least in part - we’re the one’s buying the stuff that the corporations produce. Of course some of it is due to there not being any alternatives (for example decent public transport so you don’t have to own a car) but some of it is also because we actively choose cheaper products, buy new things instead of second-hand and so on.

          What we need (which we all seem to agree on) is more regulations so that corporations have to their part and then the individuals simply won’t have the option to choose the more polluting product.

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      1 year ago

      Corporate footprints are done on our behalf, in order to manufacture the goods and services we buy.

      The real problem is that “vote with your dollars” fundamentally doesn’t work because human nature is selfish and short-sighted, so regulation is necessary.