At what point do we blame ourselves to increasing fossil fuel usage, even in the what, past 5 years?
But I also think that the effect of even a megamillionaire who takes a private jet everywhere is dwarfed by the effect of corporate leadership, lobbying, and legal teams who successfully undo regulation via the courts and legislatures so that they can make more profits.
So I buy shrimp that was grown locally.
Then I read up that shrimps were transported to the other side of the world, peeled there, and shipped back, travelled 20,000 miles, before landong on my plate.
I buy canned pairs, and turns out the same story. What am I suppose to do, starve?
The capitalist machine prioritises fictitious resource of money, over real resource of oil. It wastes huge amount of enegy just to take advantage of a poor country's low wages.
I drive an ebike to work. You can go vegan, quit heating your house, take cold showers, none of it will make any difference if the industry does not change it's practices.
For some reason, whenI lie to the insurance company, its fraud and I am a criminal.
But when a company lies to me about my environmentally friendly product, it's just business.
Let’s partner with oil companies to collectively solve carbon capture at planet scale? They get to keep functioning, citizens & government helps with subsidization and research programs. Put a time limit on progress and penalize the oil companies by making fines exponentially rise by time if possible and unmet. A select subcommittee can oversee the process and politicians can coordinate partnerships with other countries.
You need BOTH the carrot AND the stick to get behaviors to change.