• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    People aren’t going to like the reality that we need BOTH people to change their habits AND we need companies to follow suite.

    I mean, needed. Past-tense. We’re in it now, it’s too late to stop, maybe we can still prevent the worst case if people all get over themselves really fast and are willing to change the way they do things.

    lol.

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      3 months ago

      People aren’t going to like the reality that we need BOTH people to change their habits AND we need companies to follow suite.

      Jon Stewart said it best.

      “The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail **** job, day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart, and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues till they get a positive result. And even then, have to stay on to make sure that result holds.”

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      3 months ago

      Yeah. I mean I agree that focusing on change at the systemic level is more effective than changing individual habits, but what people don’t realize is that the systemic change we need is the kind that will force those individual changes.

      Taxing or regulating the oil companies will help, but it will help by making energy more expensive so people are forced to make do with less.