On Friday, the globe hit 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees) above pre-industrial levels for the first time in recorded history

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Well, no, wandering off into the woods is the biggest personal offset you can make.

    And there’s a whole range between that and being a vegan anti-natalist, and once you get into calculating your impact on others the whole equation changes

    This isn’t a problem that can be solved personally, it doesn’t make sense to look at it like that

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      11 year ago

      wandering off into the woods is the biggest personal offset you can make.

      what about destroying fossil fuel extraction or transportation projects?

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        11 year ago

        Well that’s not really personal anymore.

        Like say you blow up an oil rig or tanker… Congrats, you just made huge a carbon footprint.

        Now say oil equipment gains a habit of being sabotaged, consistently. If it’s one person, It’s a problem for law enforcement. If it’s a consistent thing, fossil fuels have just become more expensive to produce statistically

        Or, you know, we could pass a tax or regulate them properly

        Regardless, my point is that climate change is a systematic problem, thinking of it in terms of individual action is already flawed