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Sell your car. Stop eating meat. Go to city council meetings and push for bike lanes.

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And that still won’t do shit when a company like ExxonMobil produces more pollution in a single year than thousands of people will in an entire lifetime. Don’t sit here and act like anything I do will make a difference just because it makes you feel better.

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It will cause at least one less gram to be emitted. You said nothing, but what you can do isn’t nothing. It’s just not much. But this is the survival of all life on earth we’re talking about.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, it’s not going to get better. It’s not.

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We have millions of people who care, and even if every single one of us produced a carbon neutral footprint(which isn’t possible for everyone) it still wouldn’t stop what’s coming at this point. It would slow it down but not stop it because 100 companies are responsible for 71% of all greenhouse gasses, and only 25 companies and state owned orgs are responsible for over 50% of the global industrial emissions. Without stopping them, you are throwing an icecube on a forest fire.

Hell, the top 1% of co2 producers produce 1000 times more than the bottom 1% which is you and me.

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Dr. Seuss was ahead of his time

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one less gram to be emitted

lmao, one gram of CO2 out of the 3.74 × 10^16 grams of CO2 emitted annually worldwide.

This is like digging through couch cushions hoping to find enough money to fund the construction of a space station.

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Those things are helpful and nice, but they aren’t even close to enough. As long as conservatives hold any power, billionaires and corporations will continue to cook the planet. To combat global heating, we must combat conservatism.

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Buy a gun. Participate in direct action and protests. Help organise mutual aid structures. Spread class consciousness. Assassinate a conservative politician. Storm the capital.

I didn’t list these things earlier because they require a bigger commitment than being carfree or vegan. I wanted to start with the easy stuff.

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I like the cut of your jib.

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Did you know you agree with the “hippie”?

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