Re:The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of ...
by spaced-out on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:15PM
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The average person is focused on problems in their own life and doesn't have time to keep track of every dollar they spend and what it supports.
When a hole was developing in the ozone layer advocates spent years trying to get people to stop buying the chemicals that were responsible, to no avail. Same with the issue of lead in gasoline and white phosphorous in matches. The solution in all those cases was to simply pass laws to stop a handful of companies from producing those products rather than try to raise awareness in millions of people.
That's the person who incentivized the polluters to pollute in the first place. The individual had no standards except an expanding "quality of life" and they were given just what they demanded: consumption without regard for consequence. This attitude perpetuates it.
You vote with your dollars. Our current corporate players are who we paid them to be.