Nothing you can do will move the needle on climate until the billionaire class is exterminated. Their continued existence is an existential threat. By living they kill, kill today and take lives of those still inborn. By existing they forclose the future.

The great filter exists, and it has a name. Musk. Thiel. Gates. Rockefeller. Exterminate them, or they will exterminate all life.

Once it became clear that a large portion of our recycled waste was just being sold and off shored to poorer countries, I stopped giving a fuck about recycling and stopped doing it. What I did start doing was doing everything I could to eliminate plastic from my life, or reuse what I did have until it broke.

I've worked in manufacturing plants for the last almost 20 years. One packaging line will produce more waste in a day than you can hope to counter.

800 million people (so just the population of US, CA, and EU) doing small things can absolutely have a larger impact though. Rich bastards do have a vastly larger impact than individual normal people but using that to say "I don't have to do anything, the others are more at fault" is not helping anyone.

Also, hey Europeans, please buy your grandma a little split unit AC to cool her room. It's not going to destroy life on this planet. But not buying it might kill your grandma.

Probably right about 0.2⁰ C

So we should hurt the rich? I could get behind that

You should look up the fascinating technology of "reusable bags". I haven't bought one in years!

Did it specify "of unactivity" or did they radically reduce your work hours?

yeah I really fucking hate how this particular meme format seems to subtly imply we can just stop making an effort. Always downvote whenever I see it.

That's what posts like this miss--- collective action works, be it in collective bargaining, politics, or environmental action. It can be less effective than stronger actors, but it is still very effective. And often is more effective. People also miss that the average output of trash from middle class people is still a bit much.

You're right, we can't afford to either only recycle all our bottles or only drastically reduce our ultra-wealthy.

Hank Green did a video inspired by a similar meme after the Blue Origin rocket explosion. He acknowledged that plastic recycling isn't great, but encouraged focusing on other materials like aluminium. The explosion released 825 tons of carbon dioxide, which is ~1% of the hourly emissions of the aluminum industry. The current amount of recycled cans in the US saves the equivalent to 15 rocket explosions of carbon every day.

So yeah, get a reusable container, and try using aluminum instead of plastic.

https://youtu.be/pXVmkurTOgM

For a minute I thought it was Torvalds and was highly confused.

I haven't watched LTT in a long time (basically ever since it was publicly obvious the money got to his head and everything that comes with ego), so when I saw somewhere he bought a jet, I first thought it was April Fools. Then after a short research I realized he's for real. My partner, on the other hand, was convinced I fell for it, and it took me a while to prove him otherwise.

Absolutely wild what Linus managed to convince (some of?) his fanboys. People will suck off filthy rich assholes like it's their job.