• v2vhD7HK@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Why do you think the oil & gas industry exists? To satisfy the needs of consumer. The industry isn’t just burning oil just to fuck the climate up. It all comes down to the consumer.

    Now about carbon footprint. The Paris agreement aims to limit global warming to 1.5ºC. To do, we collectively have to emit less than 250 Gt (from the start of 2023). That means each of the 8 billion persons on the planet get a 1.16 t/year budget until 2050, and then zero.

    You cannot reach this footprint while eating meat like the average American does. You cannot reach it by keeping driving, or even owning a car. You cannot just hope anymore to keep same lifestyle, which was only made affordable by an era of cheap fossil energy.

    Of course you can keep blaming other in all caps text but that’s not going to change anything, nor inspire change. Are the companies to blame? Sure. But companies are made by people, and are all eventually financed by the consumer. You. Me. Us.