• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Ah, the old “this solution isn’t 100% effective, thus I shall ignore it”.

    Shell is creating products you are buying. We can regulate them harder, but you can ALSO just not buy their product. We can do multiple things that contribute, you just don’t want to, because it’s slightly inconvenient for you.

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      6 months ago

      This post is a call to action. You should take it as a call to action.

      You should be going to marches.

      You should be rallying and participating in your local politics.

      You should be supporting groups fighting for better public transit, stricter regulations and the budget to enforce it, and right to repair.

      You should be voting with environmental Policy in mind.

      You can do personal changes too, and encouraging others to do the same. but the vast majority of humans will not change until it’s easy and gratifying or they’re forced to. It will take exponentially more work getting a meaningful number of people to listen to you’re propaganda. Its much more efficient to target the infrastructure around them to incentivize the change.

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        6 months ago

        But that’s the point. You can do both. You could do anything, just don’t shrug and go “it’s only corporations”.

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          6 months ago

          That’s not point. Individualist solutions are weak in comparison - a drop in the bucket. Collectivist solutions are what will actually be the brunt of solution. You’re pitching a patch kit for damage that needs a full rework.

          By all means, cut you’re consumption, but realize that your consumption change isn’t going to do nearly enough on its own. That’s the point of what’s being said above.

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            6 months ago

            And my point is that structural reform is neither fast, total or certain. It’s preferable, but if you can change some things today, that’s a great temporary thing in addition to maybe changing everything in 10 years.

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      6 months ago

      I’m not buying any Shell products. Yet they destroy my life and world.

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        6 months ago

        It’s basically impossible not to buy Shell products. Even if you don’t buy from Shell directly, chances are there are products of Shell in the products you buy. And even if that isn’t the case, chances are the factory the product is made uses a lot of Shell products and so do all the factories that made the components and so do the shipping companies that shipped all the stuff around the world.

        Shell is freaking huge, they are everywhere and one of the biggest companies in the world. They don’t just make gasoline, they have so many products and have their claws in a lot of industries.

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          6 months ago

          Probably. It was a reply to someone writing that the solution would be for me to not buy their product.

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      6 months ago

      Great, instead of Shell, just buy BP, or Exxon… Oh wait… they’re up to exactly the same shit, and are all together deliberately holding us captive and keeping any realistic alternative from being accessible to the masses because they know it will replace them…

      First remove head from ass, then form opinion…

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        6 months ago

        I’m very sorry you see absolutely no alternatives to driving a car, but I think it’s a bit unfair to claim my head is up my ass because of your lack creativity.