Stop obsessing over your environmental "sins." Fight the oil and gas industry instead.

[ancianita]

A good article for those of us feeling helpless about climate change.

While we’re busy testing each other’s purity, we let the government and industries — the authors of said devastation — off the hook completely.

This overemphasis on individual action shames people for their everyday activities, things they can barely avoid doing because of the fossil fuel-dependent system they were born into.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal?fbclid=IwAR2MUCfPZ-_341SObBun_Yr0C8NLV3NYfTS-kQa92ODOHhEjHhxIpkkpDHw

I don’t care how long you’ve been engaged in the climate conversation, 10 years or 10 seconds. I don’t care how many statistics you can rattle off.

I don’t need you to be all-solar-everything to be an environmentalist. I don’t need you to be vegan-er than thou, or me, for that matter. I don’t care if you are eating a burger right this minute.

I don’t even care if you work on an oil rig. In some parts of the country, those are the only jobs that pay enough for you to feed your family. And I don’t blame workers for that. I blame their employers. I blame the industry that is choking us all, and the government that is letting them do it.

All I need you to do is want a livable future. This is your planet, and no one can advocate for it like you can. No one can protect it like you can.

We have 11 years — not to start but to finish saving the planet.

I’m not here to absolve you. And I’m not here to abdicate you. I am here to fight with you.

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[Kaleva]

1. We, as individuals, need to work to adapt to the changes.

[ancianita]

2. Right. And taking the advice at the article's end is a good start.

[JI7]

3. this is bs and does NOT HELP. people really do need to be making changes

in n everyday lives to make things better.

[ancianita]

4. Climate scientists say no. That time passed. Read The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

and you'll see why.

Of course everyone should practice frugality and not be mindless consumers.

But if you already are more green than the audience she writes to, great!

Shame is good in helping us discipline our consumption and fuel use, yes, but it shouldn't freeze people into denial about what's really happening.

100 companies, right now, put 70% of the atmosphere's gigatonnage of carbon emissions. All the recycling and composting and Firefox behaviors we master isn't going to stop them.

[Blues Heron]

5. This does seem trollish now that its popped up a few times

Only ourselves can save our planet - EVERYBODY needs to do their part NOW. PLEASE TURN SOMETHING OFF RIGHT NOW. thank you.

[ancianita]

6. I don't understand. What is the "it" that's popped up a few times?