grinlif123

There's a lot of things we could do to reduce damage to the environment by a more significant amount. Like removing private jets. This story gets pushed every other year, but I always think it's just putting more shit on the common person. Haven't used a straw in years, what more do you want from me.

I feel we've known about this for years, or have I missed something in that article? What concerns me more is how LLM/AI has obviously enabled this on an unimaginable scale, when it was already pretty bad. These days, when I go on reddit, I often notice things that make me think someone's got an ulterior motive behind the posts or comments that involves convincing me of something. I can recall noticing it a number of times in regards to overwhelmingly pro-Israel comments, where after another hospital got blown there would suddenly be a hundred posts of things like one was a Palestinian man mistreating a dog I think, and they all had 1000s of comments saying that justified the genocide. Just to be clear, not trying to make this politcal, just what I noticed. It felt similar after Trump and Zelensky met in that 'why aren't you in a suit' meeting, and suddenly I saw a bunch of subreddits with videos of Ukrainian alt-right marches - and again, comments that resoundingly agreed that Ukraine was not the perfect place we'd apparently been told. My point though, is it feels more and more like everything on the internet has an agenda behind it, and for me, it's just making the internet feel less like a social networking community between the people of the world and just propaganda slop. It also feels harder and harder to find the truth about things, or a balanced view. Everything is all just rage-bait, like the whole world is shouting at each other. What worries me about it is how much more divided we're getting in the real world, because you go out thinking these threads reflect the world and now everyones enraged with each other. Anyway I've woffled on and on but still can't really articulate what I mean, so I'll give up.

There's been a news article like this every couple of years (I remember the first time I saw one was because someone had launched insect-based pet food for dogs to tackle the problem). They always seem to find another thing like this that puts the blame on normal people, when none of us are ever going to produce as much of a carbon footprint as the private jet-setters out there.

"About 51% of those private jets burn at least 239 gallons of fuel per hour. That's translates to more carbon emissions in two hours and one minute than the IEA's estimate of the average person's yearly 4.7 tons (4.3 metric tons) of pollutants, the study calculated."

I ditched the plastic bags and straws, but I'm not losing the pets until they lose their jets.