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In reply to the discussion: This is why the Earth is screwed. And no, your Tesla and digital thermostat don't help. [View all]Zeitghost
(3,796 posts)35. People will not voluntarily
reduce their lifestyle in any significant way.
EVs, buying organic and recycling don't impact your life in a negative way and if anything, might enhance it. Shrinking the economy which is where this thread of posts proposition, does.
People will not choose to live worse lives with fewer things without strict, oppressive government regulation and strict oppressive government regulation inherently requires the use and threat of violence (see prohibition and the war on drugs).
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This is why the Earth is screwed. And no, your Tesla and digital thermostat don't help. [View all]
WarGamer
Sep 2022
OP
yeah... the "haves" will be tremendously advantaged in the future climate situation.
WarGamer
Sep 2022
#27
No, my answer is to educate people to act ethically and make it easy for them to do so.
meadowlander
Sep 2022
#32
Tens of millions of people are already doing this but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
meadowlander
Sep 2022
#36
This is literally the justification that Samuel L. Jackson's character used in Kingsman.
Initech
Sep 2022
#15
The average Indian or Pakistani individual has about 1/10th the footprint of an American
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2022
#25