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What do you have in mind there here? Since we've increased our emissions and energy use over that time I have a hard time declaring we've been doing meaningful things.

Making things worse more slowly is not making things better, electric cars being a stand-out example.

It's past the point where average people can change anything. Literally the only action a normal person can take is not having children. And that only helps us decades in the future, when it may already be too late to matter.

To avoid worst case scenario we need the rich and corporations to do something big.

They refuse to.

So now we need politicians worldwide to force them, and that doesn't look likely either.

So I feel like my lottery analogy is a good fit.

America for example, Biden is bragging about the economy, but most of the gains are in trade goods shipped from half the globe away and increased fossil fuels drilling.

But our only other option is trump. So no matter who wins, were not going to have a chance of taking real action as a country for at least five more years. During which the problem gets worst and we'd have to take even more action even faster to stop it.

Pretending everything will be fine hasn't worked so far, why would it now?

What’s been most prominent over that time period is greenwashing. Companies are cashing in by latching onto capitalist means of exploiting the crisis. “Carbon neutrality” is almost complete horseshit when you hear it because there are now firms that dish out that label while outsourcing the promise to plant enough trees to offset, say, BP’s or GAP’s carbon footprint.

Remember the constant child and slave labor exposes from the 90s/early 2000s? The same companies kept getting caught, and eventually they just outsourced to some no name company who in turn hired the dangerous factories full of children. That way, GAP could say, “we had absolutely zero knowledge of child labor. During our investigation we have found X company to be at fault and we have severed ties with said company.” Meanwhile, that company changes its name or they go right back to getting clothes for $0.02/garment and then still getting to act surprised there is abuse.

The same shit is happening with these “carbon offset” claims. “We have been promised by X company that at the end of every quarter our emissions will be offset by Y number of new trees planted.” There isn’t enough land on earth to plant as many trees as we would need to offset our still claiming emissions. It’s smoke and mirrors. It’s all marketing. We are brainwashed by how many companies we hear making lots and lots of noise about the fact that they are green, their products are green, you’re green for buying them. It’s nonsense. Consumerism won’t save us. Drastic action that quickly dismantles the structure responsible for climate change would.

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Meaning aforementioned 0.0001%? Then, sure. Technically.