There’s not a thing you can do as an individual that will have near the impact of countering the wealthy gross over usage of resources and industrial pollution. It’s a fools errand so don’t try to guilt people who don’t recycle.
Once it became clear that a large portion of our recycled waste was just being sold and off shored to poorer countries, I stopped giving a fuck about recycling and stopped doing it. What I did start doing was doing everything I could to eliminate plastic from my life, or reuse what I did have until it broke.
Only a small percent ends up recycled and there’s some plastics that it’s cost prohibitive to recycle. Aluminum cans is another one I try not to introduce into my life as well. They have better margins for recycling but it’s easier than plastic to not include into your purchase.
I’ve worked in manufacturing plants for the last almost 20 years. One packaging line will produce more waste in a day than you can hope to counter.
And that’s just the packaging part!
I’ve seen a plant drain an entire towns water tower down to 12 inches. Not feet. Inches. They had to pay to truck in water. And all it was doing was running through a chiller and into the drain. Not even grey water.
Nothing you can do will move the needle on climate until the billionaire class is exterminated. Their continued existence is an existential threat. By living they kill, kill today and take lives of those still inborn. By existing they forclose the future.
The great filter exists, and it has a name. Musk. Thiel. Gates. Rockefeller. Exterminate them, or they will exterminate all life.
800 million people (so just the population of US, CA, and EU) doing small things can absolutely have a larger impact though. Rich bastards do have a vastly larger impact than individual normal people but using that to say “I don’t have to do anything, the others are more at fault” is not helping anyone.
Hank Green actually explained something optimistic after the Blue Origin rocket explosion (here on Youtube), that yes, there are big companies and big billionaires being superfluously wasteful.
But there are a lot of us recycling our bottles and cans, and when we collectively do this, it makes more of a difference than rockets going boom, and jetsetting billionaires.
Granted, we need to drastically reduce our ultra-wealthy for a vast myriad of reasons, but we do collectively make a big difference.
That’s what posts like this miss— collective action works, be it in collective bargaining, politics, or environmental action. It can be less effective than stronger actors, but it is still very effective. And often is more effective. People also miss that the average output of trash from middle class people is still a bit much.
yeah I really fucking hate how this particular meme format seems to subtly imply we can just stop making an effort. Always downvote whenever I see it.
Yeah, we could have a world in which we have ultra rich billionaires individually wasting that of a small nation on the regular and no one doing anything to try to offset it. I 100% get the defeatism, but it really does no one any good.
Always downvote whenever I see it.
Glad there’s… 12 of us :|
You’re right, we can’t afford to either only recycle all our bottles or only drastically reduce our ultra-wealthy.
The data shows that we should be recycling the rich into fertilizer.
Feed the CIWS turret.
Don’t forget about Linus. The quotes on the site are what he said, when he was showing off the jet.
For a minute I thought it was Torvalds and was highly confused.
Yeah, I don’t think the guy linked is famous enough to not have the “YouTuber” qualifier.
What the hell do they need a private jet for, that has to be a ego purchase, also they have the money for this but not for taking care of their employees, especially the ones getting harassed, I unsubscribed to their channel when they dropped that fake apology video with Advertisement, cant believe they are still profitable
It’s basic girl math.
Love that Canadian south park character of Linus lol
Is there a word, possibly German, for when you discover that the person you got douchey vibes off for years but couldn’t quite pin down why, is revealed to be exactly what you suspected? I just had flashbacks to Will Smith at the Oscars.
LTT has always been a techbro, surrounded by other techbros.
Bruh wtf TIL LTT has a private jet
People on youtube defend him for it.
Is that him using his jet or is it like a rented jet where other people use it when he doesn’t?
I use paper straws, I can’t get a bag at the supermarket to hold anything but I still have to pay for those bags.
These cunts get to keep wasting the earth. Yes I’m including Taylor Swift, Jeff Bezos, the heads of Microsoft, Adobe, HP and all the rest.
Let’s add the flights of the teams. Let’s ask if that is necessary.
Today, work machine gave me suggestions for how the be eco friendly. (Turning off screen after 5 minutes. Sleep mode after 15 minutes)
All I can think of is how much Microsoft CAN invest in eco mode, but chooses money (or the hope of money in AI) instead.
also (More Microsoft hate)
Every time I’m back to work and forced to windows, I get a new problem. This popes up while reading emails
Did it specify “of unactivity” or did they radically reduce your work hours?
Microsoft apps have been incredibly terrible at, uh, working, lately. Outlook periodically logs me out on its own for no reason. The mobile apps are especially shitty, at least on Android - they either crash/segfault themselves out right after opening, or they just stay stuck infinitely while futilely trying to log you in.
The heck is Infantino doing in Edmonton and Middle-of-nowhere, Ontario?
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He doesn’t even go to Seattle for the World Cup. I guess it’s too progressive for him.
Here’s an actual article showing his flights, it makes more sense than flying to middle of nowhere ontario and middle of nowhere baja california
And no flying to Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver? I know for a fact he didn’t drive there from the Webequie First Nation.
Best I can figure is that’s Webequie https://maps.app.goo.gl/qaWyy4BsXuj98kY7A population 1300
Where did he go in Ontario, Canada? The map has him landing in the middle of one of the least populated areas in N. America.
Billionaires are the problem.
Every bit helps 💧🌊
So Qatar was way better every stadium is at a 30min drive distance
If he’s just one, there are thousands or so using private executive transport, and these believe they would rather have a presence than trying to use something like Zoom.
Unless any of you has a dope space station or starship we are indeed all stuck with one another here.
Why was he going to Merida, Mexico so much?
Just picking up some gifts
