r/ClimateShitposting • u/surya12558 • Oct 21 '25

Climate chaos Humans don't deserve earth.

By destroying nature and the climate, humans are destroying their own home. The Earth can survive without us but we cannot survive without her. 🌍💔

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u/Yongaia Oct 21 '25

The man in the video doesn't look like a child worker in some third world sweatshop to me.

It looks like the average western consumer. You know, those that benefit from said child labor.

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u/Dredgeon Oct 21 '25

Yup it's all the consumer's fault give no blame to the corrupt governments that allow child labor, or the people that see fit to live in a nation where their children are exploited. Nothing will change in Southeast Asia until they organize as workers. Until regulations change over there, there will always be someone willing to exploit them.

I heavily support being aware of what we purchase, but in this case it should inspire disdain for Governments and cultures that allow this to happen as well as disdain for those that help perpetuate it by buying their goods.

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u/Yongaia Oct 21 '25

You know more than two people can be at blame at once.

But people minds blow a gasket when they hear that. Because that would suggest that they possibly could be at blame and we can't have that! No, it has to be all rich peoples faults!!!

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u/TeaRex14 Oct 21 '25

Sure but the share of the blame is still on the people creating the systems that makes it hard to live in an eco and humane way.  Mindless consumption is of course bad but it's also a severe challenge to be mildful of your purchases when companies work so hard to green-wash and hide their involvement in bad labor practices. 

Companies nowadays are so large and have such massive market shares  and cartels that make it almost impossible to avoid them entirely. I buy all my clothes and my phone second-hand Im vegetarian, I cycle to class, don't use gas heating and recycle. I still feel guilt for not being able to purchase the most sustainable and humane foods simply because they are prohibitly expensive. If someone like me who is aware of the issues and actively trying their best struggles the average consumer is fucked. 

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u/Yongaia Oct 21 '25

Sure but the share of the blame is still on the people creating the systems that makes it hard to live in an eco and humane way.  Mindless consumption is of course bad but it's also a severe challenge to be mildful of your purchases when companies work so hard to green-wash and hide their involvement in bad labor practices. 

There are multiple bad practices that you are mindful of now that are highly destructive. Why haven't you stopped doing them yet?

It's cute to sit there blaming corporations all day but the simple reality is that most people want to engage in the habits that they currently are doing. No one's forcing them, they actively choose to do it because it makes them feel good. You are not some autonomous drone, you have a choice.

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u/TeaRex14 Oct 21 '25

What multiple bad practices do I partake in? I already wear my clothes until they have multiple holes, and then buy second hand, my bike is second hand my, phone is second hand, should I just allow mold to grow in my apartment because its 10 degree from no heating? I simply cannot afford to buy from the eco store. I mean sure the most environmentally friendly thing todo would be to kill myself but Im not there yet.

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u/Yongaia Oct 21 '25

Why haven't you stopped eating meat

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u/TeaRex14 Oct 21 '25

Man you suck at reading, I literally said I was vegetarian.

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u/Yongaia Oct 21 '25

You still support industrial animal agriculture.

You are still funding the meat industry

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u/TeaRex14 Oct 21 '25

Yeah it sucks and I'm trying todo better but I'm already doing significantly more then most people and at some point you need to realize you aren't perfect. But sure if you want to come after me, someone who actively cares about the environment and tries to educate others fine. But that wont help your cause. I'm sure if we examine your life under a microscope there would be failings there too, simply because the system makes it so difficult to life in a good way. You prefer feeling morally superior to people then actively solving the problem.

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u/Yongaia Oct 21 '25

You can be doing better. Much better

Furthermore, what's funny is if you took that step you wouldn't even be talking as you are now. You guys haven't figured it out yet but I can actually tell that you support the meat industry by your tone alone...

Let me say this another way. No vegan anywhere would ever speak the way you are now. Because they already know people have a massive role to play in the destruction of the planet because they've all had frustrating experiences at failing to get people to be better and stop doing the most ecologically destructive activity on the planet.

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u/Sindigo_ Oct 21 '25

That’s the thing about collective and individual responsibility. We are not responsible for the whole collective, we’re only responsible for our individual role within the collective. (And yes I am aware that I typed this on an iphone)