Its about living a high quality, low cost life.
Going without isn’t hard when you observe yourself being shitty about consumer goods.
Once you get the perspective of yourself buying crappy plastic junk or food you don’t need or what a landfill looks and smells like you may begin the process of buying less.
If you’re poor you are really stuck without a life boat.
If you’re middle class it hurts more.
If you’re wealthy it hurts more because you realize things = status.
But in reality if you are not part of the 0.01% you are actually living month to month anyway so who am I kidding, shits not changing lol
Ugh I hate when I see that quote because it’s made up and was never true. It was supposed to be around 100 companies are responsible for 70% of global emissions pertaining to fossil fuel and cement production, which accounts for ~10% of global emissions.
People love pointing the finger at someone else while pretending they have nothing to do with the problem. It’s why I fear we’re well on our way to extinction
There’s nothing the average person can do to significantly curb their CO2 emissions. We still have to use electricity, drive cars to get to work and errands, and buy food grown with fossil fuels. The best the average person can do is to NOT have any children. The second best is to stop eating all meat, or at least greatly curb eating meat, especially beef.
I’ve already done both of those due to personal preferences but I doubt most people are willing.
Paper straws and reusable bags are nice but they ain’t doing shit. Most Americans can’t choose public transport most of the time. There really aren’t major things we can do besides push for politicians to regulate emitters more/
