Re:G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than g...
by j_wtf_all_taken on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:26PM
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> "giving my children a better future, so that their lives aren't as hard as mine"
Although they'll have a pretty hard live if we don't do something against climate change. And yes, many people do not have the resources to do these tings.
> Because people have neither time nor money for any of this.
Many people do not have that, yes. But many others do, and they could start doing it and as they are probably the ones better off, their over-proportional influence as consumers would make a huge difference. Its a complete failure of the "middle class".
> Systemic incentives are what's needed to save us.
Well yeah, I agree that politics/elections are a better way. Its just that ... we do neither. We do not take our individual responsibilities serious, neither when voting, nor when consuming.
We've just signed a new contract with our electricity provider in Poland. Renewable usage didn't even enter the discussion - none of us even realized there's a choice there. Only when reading the details of the agreement I realized the provider is committing themselves to deliver electricity from renewable sources. So now, I'm powering my computer with green energy, and so is likely my entire neighbourhood. Not because any of us made that choice - it's because the power company did.
Systemic incentives are what's needed to save us. Getting a power company to go green is much more cost-effective than trying to make an equivalent number of consumers to switch individually.