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tor 2019-09-19 klockan 11:35 -0600 skrev Nate Graham: > On 9/19/19 11:05 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > More, I see all those "strikes" are substitutes for people actually > > handling > > or at least for postponing their own handling. Do you really need > > politicians > > to decide for you that you should look at what you consume and do > > and what > > harm it does to others, and then adopt things accordingly? Are you > > really all > > helpless victims of the bad evil system? Not responsible for the > > damage you > > create, because "politicians did not put a bin here, their fault > > that I drop > > my garbage on the ground"? > > It's a common polluter tactic to get people to internalize the idea > that > each individual must take action on their own. And we should take > individual action! But it is not enough, and it never will be. > > I personally have spent over $50,000 in the last year to make my > house > carbon-negative through a combination of energy efficiency > improvements, > replacement of gas appliances with electric versions, and > installation > of a large solar array. I plan to buy an electric car in the next > year > or two so that my day-to-day personal fossil fuel consumption is > zero. > But still, it's not enough! These actions amount to a drop in the > bucket > despite having been accomplished at great personal cost. None of my > neighbors have seen fit to do the same. And it does not offset the > fossil fuel consumption of the plastic in the products I buy and > their > packaging, or the multiple international plane trips I now take to > attend KDE events. > > Generally there are no alternatives to polluting actions such as > these. > There is no electric train powered by renewably-generated > electricity > that I can take to cross the ocean. Almost always there is no > alternative product made entirely of wood or metal, or wrapped in > paper > instead of plastic. > > Only through collective action can a problem of this magnitude > actually > be addressed. We must imbue our organizations with our values so > that > the system itself tilts in the direction of fixing the problem > automatically. Our own personal moral righteousness is not enough > and > never will be. > > > Nate >
