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0 pointsSwenrekcah3y ago0 comments

Action against climate change is urgently needed, so please don’t get angry at anybody trying to bring it about.

But there is a definite problem with a demand for personal action, it is both ineffective and usually hypocritical like in the way you suggested.

We absolutely need to demand that all companies and institutions get to carbon neutral or negative status in the products or services they offer.

Every individual can do their part if they want but that’s mostly to feel good, any real progress can only come from the goods/service providers fixing their offers (and that might need all sorts of legislation and incentives to get going, whatever it takes).

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hn_throwaway_993y ago

I agree with this, but that's what makes this hypocrisy so particularly galling. These politicians are in the unique position to write legislation (or at least influence legislation) that could prevent shit like this, like requiring a longer minimum flight distance, or prohibiting schedules like this where one leg is empty.

Totally agree, appealing to personal action (beyond voting really) is largely a "feel good exercise", but that's not the case for politicians in their official capacity.

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