• Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I won’t do a single shit unless the people that are actually causing this crisis do something.

    Companies wouldn’t produce stuff but for people buying it. Naturally people who aren’t willing to stop buying the product aren’t going to do stuff like support legislature that makes it become a lot more expensive and/or difficult to acquire, or even forbidden entirely.

    So it’s political suicide for a politician to do something like that: they’ll just get voted out. Without regulations forcing companies to adhere to those restrictions, it’s basically business suicide to just do something that hamstrings the company’s ability to produce whatever product. Their competitors will just eat them.

    I’m not saying companies/the rich don’t have responsibility, they absolutely do. I really think that change, for the most part, has to start with the population in general though. I definitely strongly disagree with anyone saying that consumers don’t have at least equal responsibility.

    • hh93@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Yeah exactly - just look at the protests when fuel prices had a (relatively insignificant to what would be needed) rise in recent years

      A lot of people seem to think that they are free of any responsibility whatsoever and can continue living as if they are not influenced by climate change…