• stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        We’re actually to the point where wanting people to consume fewer fossil fuels makes me a fossil fuel shill.

        Wow.

        The absolute state of rhetoric today.

        • UsernameHere@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Stop trying to play the victim. You’re literally pushing fossil fuel talking points. If you aren’t a fossil fuel shill, you’re still pushing their talking points.

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      2 months ago

      I think you misread. I don’t account for 1 in 26 million of emissions. I count for 1% divided by 26 million of emissions. 1 26 millionth of a percent.

      This would be like if there was some kind of global election, and ALL Australian votes added together were worth 1.2% of the total vote.

      That means my personal vote/emissions in this scenario would be 0.000000046%

      And then there were 57 corporations whose interests were largely aligned that accounted for 80% that also got to vote.

      Imagine a school/college/workplace had votes that everyone could participate in to make changes to it. But altogether, the student/employee votes could account for at most 20% of the vote, and teacher/management accounted for 80% of the vote.

      Would you believe your vote has an affect in such an election?

      (and this isn’t even continuing the analogy to the point that there are like 200 classes/departments and yours accounts for like 1-4% assuming you’re in one of the larger ones, and there are 26 million or more people in your department, meanwhile there are 57 teachers/managers that mostly agree with each other in protecting what they want/their interests)