Economics

1888 readers

14 users here now

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

369

We live in the capitalocene (feddit.uk)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

128 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (22 children)

A lot of folks in the replies don't like imagining they might be problematic... Sorry folks; we're all to blame.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (17 children)

a single flight on a private jet smashes any amount of carbon I could output in my entire lifetime. it is not all of us equally, it is a handful of ultrawealthy people destroying the planet.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Yet here you are using a device created by both stripping the earth of resources and exploiting already suffering humans to argue that you're not a significant part of the problem... Yes the ultra wealthy are worse, but that doesn't mean we aren't bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who makes the decisions to do this?
And who forced us to use phones and computers by making everything digital/online? Are we to be blamed bcs we have a car that could've been electric ages ago? That car we need to go to a job producing more stuff for the benefit of stock holders?
Is it us that need to grow the economy for those same people bcs that's the system we live in? Did we ask for planned obsolescense?
Is it a coincidence big oil coined the phrase ‘carbon footprints’ ? You're shifting blame as intended, everyone knows who the biggest polluters are and why.