Edit: I wanted to apologize after reading some of the comments. You raise some legitimate points, I realize that there is a subtle malthusian element to this chart and some of you feel like a burden already. Furthermore, you raise a good point about corporate pollution, oil companies, and how their footprint is much greater than average plebs like us.
That’s 100% valid and I don’t disagree with you at all. My “compromise” I guess would be that continue to apply pressure and protest against large corporations, but in terms of ourselves, just pick a few things you can cut down on yourself, it does not have to be everything on this list.
For example, I really prefer having animal products in my diet, but I am willing to live in a small apartment , car-free, and not go on vacation much in my adulthood. In the same way, you guys can pick what you are comfortable with in reducing and what you do not want to compromise on.
All of us have different standards of living and we are flexible on some things, and some things we are not flexible. That is alright, just consider changing what you are comfortable with, but please do not think you are a burden. Your presence and your life is valuable to me. I don’t like to demoralize people.
Why not both? Doing these other things does not prevent you from fighting for regulations etc. However, arguing they aren’t regulated yet so you don’t give a shit about what you do is absolutely worse.
The most bang for our buck? We’ve been arguing that companies should be regulated for decades. These other habits have been known to be an improvement for years already.
Don’t push off what you can already do today simply because companies still polute. That’s pointless and counter productive.
That’s not at all what I’m implying. I never said wait. I said we can teach it over time. You’re mincing my words to be divisive.
Yes it’s been talked about for decades and it still needs to be the first part of any climate change conversation.
I literally quoted you. You said it needs to be first. Do you know what that phrase means?
And this information is literally 6 years old even and the information itself is older than that. What gradual time to teach this do you want?
You sound like a company saying you can’t regulate now, give us time first.