there’s an even bigger contingent who are resistant to making any amount of minor changes to their lives, things that are going to be necessary if we ever get serious about climate change.
Individual consumer choices are not going to stop climate change. In fact let's have an entire struggle session about how centering individual choices as a method of combatting climate change comes directly from a propaganda campaign funded by the oil industry to essentially sabotage any attempt at mitigating global warming because of silly culture wars like this. The oil industry reliably shuts down any serious discussion about global warming by keeping people made about gas stoves and hot showers and plastic vibrators instead of being mad about coal fired power plants.
Like I'm not trying to be a dick or anything, you are literally reproducing a propaganda campaign created by the oil companies to sabotage efforts to control climate change.
Seriously. The whole idea of individual consumer choice, individual carbon footprint, individually reducing energy use, they are all, literally, oil industry psyops, and even NPR admits it.
The gas stove thing isn’t just about individual choice though. Yes you switching from a gas to electric stove won’t change anything. But banning gas stoves in all new construction would.
If the western left had the power to ban gas stoves in all new constructions then we would also have the power to nationalize and replace the oil/gas industry outright, because there's no way a capitalist government would ever agree to that measure without a revolution.
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Individual consumer choices are not going to stop climate change. In fact let's have an entire struggle session about how centering individual choices as a method of combatting climate change comes directly from a propaganda campaign funded by the oil industry to essentially sabotage any attempt at mitigating global warming because of silly culture wars like this. The oil industry reliably shuts down any serious discussion about global warming by keeping people made about gas stoves and hot showers and plastic vibrators instead of being mad about coal fired power plants.
Like I'm not trying to be a dick or anything, you are literally reproducing a propaganda campaign created by the oil companies to sabotage efforts to control climate change.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631/plastic-wars-three-takeaways-from-the-fight-over-the-future-of-plastics
Seriously. The whole idea of individual consumer choice, individual carbon footprint, individually reducing energy use, they are all, literally, oil industry psyops, and even NPR admits it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fossil-fuel-companies-spend-millions-to-promote-individual-responsibility-2021-3
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The gas stove thing isn’t just about individual choice though. Yes you switching from a gas to electric stove won’t change anything. But banning gas stoves in all new construction would.
If the western left had the power to ban gas stoves in all new constructions then we would also have the power to nationalize and replace the oil/gas industry outright, because there's no way a capitalist government would ever agree to that measure without a revolution.
it wasn't about the "western left" banning them
it was about if a ban the yankee federal government proposed was good or not
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