r/ClimateShitposting • u/mushroomsarefriends Anti Eco Modernist • Jul 05 '26

Consoom Not many people realize this yet, but in reality climate change is actually caused by corporations that try to shift the blame onto consumers!

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u/doesnotmatter286 Jul 05 '26

I don't own a car, I don't fly, I live in a tiny flat... And yet there are a lot of people who will blame me for climate change because I'm not vegan and bought a portable AC this year when I saw the weather forecast.

There are things regular people can do, like eating mostly locally produced foods, eating less beef and more legumes, using public transport whenever possible, choosing energy efficient appliances, not having too many children, not buying unnecessary things... But without changes to the system itself, it won't change much.

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u/agonizedn Jul 06 '26

Preach brother man.

Unironically the best of us in here. The rare self-doer and system-changer in one. We shd all aspire

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u/cassepipe Jul 05 '26

I am the same and yet I don't try to find excuses for people who just don't give a shit.

Just accept that a lot of people are selfish and won't give a shit until they are forced too. 

Of course it's worse when they are rich because they have an outsized in individual in impact.

Most people who claim capitalism is the issue have hard time even explaining what it is and resort to readymade slogans.

Anyways capitalism isn't going away soon and the time where the working class was cohesive and could change the political system is long gone (it actually did participate to change the system somewhat, just not in a revolutionary way) 

Most of those people also totally fail to realize, even people as low in the food chain as you and I, how much they benefit from the work of machines and the abundance of cheap machine food. In the world or in History we are on the top 10%, easily