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Re:Coal Prices Rising Exponentially by adrianN on Monday October 11, 2021 @06:33AM (#28826775)
No, shifting blame and asking for individual action is a well-known tactic from the corporate propaganda playbook. Consumers have neither the necessary information, nor the necessary time to individually weigh all the different factors they care about whenever they purchase something. Very few problems are solved by demanding individual action. Leaded gasoline wasn't phased out because people started driving to boutique fuel stations that offered unleaded. Acid rain wasn't stopped because people started buying power from boutique power plants that installed sulfur filters. Our problems with the ozone hole weren't fixed because people chose not to use refrigerators.

These problems are why we invented governments and central regulation. At the very least we need to internalize the cost of pollution.

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