• yarr@feddit.nl
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    22 hours ago

    Don’t forget to use your paper straws people! It’s the average person that causes harm to the climate, not businesses. Maybe we should give them more tax breaks.

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      7 hours ago

      And don’t forget to vote for the lesser evil party that will allow amazon to build just a dozen of these enormous datacenters instead of even more

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      21 hours ago

      You’re going to be surprised when you find out who consumes what businesses produce…

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          21 hours ago

          Not only that, actively consume products and blame the creators of the products for the consequences.

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            20 hours ago

            I don’t know, if you actively are reducing your shopping from amazon and try to stay away from their products, I wouldn’t call you a hypocrite for criticising them. And many people now a days are doing just that, so you can’t really assume right from the start that a person is being hypocritical.

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              1 hour ago

              Amazon is a seller, they don’t manufacture almost anything, but that’s beside the point. It’s not about the individual. I can blame either BP for drilling for oil, or the millions of people who refuse to:

              • drive an EV
              • ordering the more expensive but locally manufactured products that don’t need that much transportation
              • vote for walkable cities and public transportation
              • simply consume less stuff

              That would require introspection, and maybe accepting responsibility. It’s easier to live in a world that the BP’s CEO is the bad one and me and all of my friends are blameless victims.

              Billionaires can only burn so much oil with their private planes and yachts, they don’t consume 100 million barrels per day.