• Flying Squid
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    1 year ago

    I hate to say it, but I keep avoiding articles about climate change for this reason. I can’t do it every time, obviously, but it just gives me such stress. We’re all so powerless while corporations destroy our planet.

    • Chaotic Entropy
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      1 year ago

      Have you tried separating your recycling out? It’ll help offset the cruise ships that each put out around 250,000 cars worth of straight up pollution a year, without factoring in other impacts.

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        And thats just the cruise ships imagine how much cargo ships output, admitedly cargo ships actually serve a purpose. Cruise ships are idols to our decadence and hubris.

        I dream of bloody knives and car bombs.

        • Praise our cargo ship overlords for bringing clothes that rip after the third wash and electronics that malfunction after half a year to us!

          Joke aside, they are integral to the global economy, but we could cut back a lot on wasteful production and consumption, reducing the transportation needed.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Absolutely, food is one thing but cheap shitty tech is another. Frankly speaking ive never encountered a situation where the cheap shitty stuff was any better than the older expensive stuff.

            But im also into weird old tech so the fact that ill use a beat up old car radio instead of a 10 buck radio from big lots is not saying much.

      • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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        21 year ago

        The solution to that, the systemic impersonal solution, is going to be ending the production of single use plastics. While there’s little you can do about recycling, you can imagine if you’ll be complaining about that.

        • Chaotic Entropy
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          21 year ago

          Also if we removed single use plastics, but didn’t dramatically cut back on everything we do that uses them, then we’d create more pollution with alternative methods trying to fill the gap. A global change is unavoidable, whether it is chosen or forced upon everyone by circumstance.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            This is part of the issue that a lot of people don’t get.

            Plastics are, largely, petrochemicals. We have plastics because we have oil.

            Use glass because it’s more recyclable? Glass is heavier and more fragile, meaning more cost to ship and more breakage in transit.

            • Chaotic Entropy
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              Yeah… we use single use plastics because they’re basically an industrial miracle production wise. Dirt cheap, super easy to use, innumerable applications… and all the drawbacks are post-production and someone else’s problem. A tough addiction to break.

            • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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              21 year ago

              Use glass because it’s more recyclable? Glass is heavier and more fragile, meaning more cost to ship and more breakage in transit.

              Meaning more local production and collection.

              • Buelldozer
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                11 year ago

                Meaning more local production and collection.

                That is incompatible with global trade.

                • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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                  11 year ago

                  It’s certainly incompatible with multi-national corporations with huge vertical integration. This is what happened with beer, soda and other stuff in many parts of the world.

                  I have lived in that World in my part of Eastern Europe, I lived plastic-free… it was the default.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      I largely tuned out of climate change news a long time ago. I still care about it. I vote for it and have donated relatively large amounts of money to environmental charities. But otherwise nothing I do makes a difference.