i won't speak to what collective effort in bringing manufacturing to heel looks like, but i personally think it's important for individuals to just generally not be wasteful, as much as their own personal power allows.
as individuals, we all exist along the line of having some power. people with less power are less culpable. they can't avoid wasting energy due to inefficiencies created by capitalism (their landlord, building codes, zoning, etc). they can only eat what they can afford and have time for. they need to survive. they are helping others survive. you get the idea. most of humanity under capitalism has very little power or control over their resource usage, unless they are willing to have some primitive, unpleasant existence. i think that is a sort of trap as well.
for a lot of us westoids and ameroids, we might use a lot more resources to survive that our cousins around the world, but our power to conserve is still structurally very limited. but among those that have some power... like the ability to relocate, own a home, choose an employer/career, walk to work, make decisions for a group, make recommendations to a group, create organizational policy, etc, we have a responsibility to use that power to conserve resources and mitigate/adapt to climate change. of course, all that in isolation isn't enough. collective action to go after and shut down very powerful bad faith actors and organizations is crucial. but that doesn't absolve individuals with some individual power from pushing for conservation and just transitions.
we're not going to get there from "green capitalism" or green-branded conspicuous consumption. collective action against capitalism is the real fight, but for those on the left with a little bit of juice have a responsibility to push where they can and make sure we are targeting other decision makers and not shaming broke people for not getting an electric audi or whatever.
i won't speak to what collective effort in bringing manufacturing to heel looks like, but i personally think it's important for individuals to just generally not be wasteful, as much as their own personal power allows.
as individuals, we all exist along the line of having some power. people with less power are less culpable. they can't avoid wasting energy due to inefficiencies created by capitalism (their landlord, building codes, zoning, etc). they can only eat what they can afford and have time for. they need to survive. they are helping others survive. you get the idea. most of humanity under capitalism has very little power or control over their resource usage, unless they are willing to have some primitive, unpleasant existence. i think that is a sort of trap as well.
for a lot of us westoids and ameroids, we might use a lot more resources to survive that our cousins around the world, but our power to conserve is still structurally very limited. but among those that have some power... like the ability to relocate, own a home, choose an employer/career, walk to work, make decisions for a group, make recommendations to a group, create organizational policy, etc, we have a responsibility to use that power to conserve resources and mitigate/adapt to climate change. of course, all that in isolation isn't enough. collective action to go after and shut down very powerful bad faith actors and organizations is crucial. but that doesn't absolve individuals with some individual power from pushing for conservation and just transitions.
we're not going to get there from "green capitalism" or green-branded conspicuous consumption. collective action against capitalism is the real fight, but for those on the left with a little bit of juice have a responsibility to push where they can and make sure we are targeting other decision makers and not shaming broke people for not getting an electric audi or whatever.