Reply #150: Because it won't make a damned bit of difference [View All]

[MindPilot]

Look, I've had CFLs--each one supposedly saving umpteen tons of coal a year--in my house for so long they are starting to burn out. And exactly nothing has changed.

The point is these kinds of actions are not effective for much more than satisfiying yourself that you are not making things worse. Which is fine--I do it too.

But this kind of change can really only happen from the production side--in short, people will eat less meat when there is less meat to eat. And in a capitalist world, that kind of production control ain't happening

If you and I and a bunch of others do more/less of whatever, others will just fill the vacumn. There are just too many people in the world for any one group to have much of an effect...which brings us back to the REAL problem.