Reminder that over 70% of greenhouse emissions are from about 100 companies. https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/100-comp...

This is a cop out that capitalism LOVES. It relinquishes the individual of any blame and encourages more consumption.

We need to consume less and vote for climate policy. This begins with the individual.

Those companies only get away with it because of our complacency. Your logic encourages that complacency and corporations LOVE that. They're happy to take the blame because they know people will still buy their product.

It starts with the individual. Nothing changes until the individual cares enough.

Americans love our excuses though. We couldn't last a day without em.

Funny, the line I hear more often is that blaming consumers instead of corporations is the capitalist copout. The point being, we need political change that regulates the corporations more than we need individual behavior change, and corporations would rather have any other outcome. That version makes more sense to me.

A couple notes about that release:

* It focuses on "industrial emissions", which in their analysis doesn't seem to include agriculture

* It's largely indirect emissions, e.g. if someone uses gas in their car from a gas station which was refined from crude oil purchased from Saudi Aramco.

Even more shocking, customers are responsible for 100% of those emissions!

Funny, I don't remember asking them to emit anything.

We vote for their behavior with our dollars. We outsource our emissions to them.

You burned their gas in your car.

I thought it was to have one less child

Not sure how this could possibly be true. Agriculture is only 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Electricity, heating, and transportation are each far larger. Switch your electricity to renewables, then change your heating and cooling to that electricity, and stop driving your fossil fuel powered vehicle everywhere. Buy local when you can.

"A society that solves problems at an individual level will collapse when there's a problem at a societal level."