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Sweaters (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

Never heard of sweater weather, hate sweaters. Hate oil companies, too.

[+] merc@sh.itjust.works -34 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Oil companies are evil. Sure. They lobby for everything they can get to benefit their business, and often get it. They lie about the dangers of climate change.

BUT

They didn't cause the climate to change single-handedly. Oil companies are pumping out vast quantities of oil because people insist on buying and driving cars. People insist on taking vacations involving flying to a beach or a mountain. Even people who "love nature" will go on a camping trip that involves driving hours in a huge metal box so that they can spend some time in nature.

Sure, it's hard to get by without a car, especially in North America. And you can definitely blame oil industry lobbyists for making cities more car-centric. At the same time, look how much of a stink suburbanites raise any time a city wants to get rid of some car lanes to put in a bike lane. Look at the fury when cities introduce congestion pricing.

tl;dr: this bitch probably drove her car to get to the building where she launched the rocket.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't grow enough food in the summer to feed myself year round so i buy groceries at the store and support the gas guzzling supply chain. Guess it's my fault. I'm sorry y'all.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

The grocery store supply chain might actually emit less CO2 than your own small home garden (assuming you drive to the store to buy seeds, etc). There's a lot of efficiencies at scale. You could also buy at local farmer's markets if you think that's going to reduce emissions. But, I'm not convinced that's going to reduce things overall.

The point is, you can't just blame companies without acknowledging your own role in this situation.

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