Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money

Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by colechristensen on Saturday May 07, 2022 @02:37PM (#31297249)

I eat the carbon equivalent of about a half pound of plastic a day, the result of which either ends up in the atmosphere or in the ground. Whatever packaging I do use (and I don’t go out of my way to avoid it) is a rounding error compared to what goes through me for basic life.

Most of the resources used are in the supply chain anyway.

The most environmentally friendly thing I’ve done in my life is delay replacing my totaled car.

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by avgcorrection on Saturday May 07, 2022 @02:41PM (#31297287)

Carbon from animals? That carbon was already part of the carbon cycle (name?), unlike carbon from petroleum sources. Am I misunderstanding you?

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by wruza on Saturday May 07, 2022 @05:37PM (#31298838)

Is that cycle natural? More people means more for-food animals, more petroleum on growing and logistics, doesn’t it. Everything depends on everything, there is no clear end of chain. Humans don’t naturally starve at scale anymore except in few fucked up regions.

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by betwixthewires on Saturday May 07, 2022 @06:51PM (#31299363)

More people means more of that carbon locked up in biomass, in the form of humans as well as animal and plant food.

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