@pluralistic Shortsighted and not thinking of the long-term consequences. Really naïve.
Dandelions are edible and routinely used in salads, but that doesn't stop people from buying roundup to kill it on our lawns. If you picked all the dandelions in your yard and brought it to a local restaurant, they'd tell you to buzz off.
Moreover, if people stopped eating beef tomorrow, what would happen to the number of cows on the planet? Truth is, they'd probably go extinct. Creating a market for something means you get more of it, not less.
There was once a time that expanding cars were considered an environmental plus. In the 19th century, the horse was the normal mode of transport, and they ate (carbon neutral) grass and then... erm.... expelled it. In the street. For people living in cities, moving to the automobile was a huge environmental win. What we know now is that you just moved the pollution from one spot to another. Instead of sitting on the road, it puffed into the air. Electric cars just move it again, so instead of spewing it into the air here, we spew it into the air over there, then at some point we have a huge pile of toxic waste to dispose of (but it's not right here right now, so it's 'green')
The environmental industrial complex is real. They're always looking for new things to package up and sell you as environmentalism, damn the actual consequences. Chasing trends makes people feel good, so it's a good marketing strategy, but it's a bad policy. They want to take your money and keep you spending, not save the planet.
People can be perfectly happy using less, and that's the best thing we can do. You can't sell that though, so we keep having products thrown at us by companies hoping to make money. The entire establishment is trying to reframe consumption as something you're doing that will save the world, and as long as we keep accepting that narrative, the planet and the human race is doomed.
Dandelions are edible and routinely used in salads, but that doesn't stop people from buying roundup to kill it on our lawns. If you picked all the dandelions in your yard and brought it to a local restaurant, they'd tell you to buzz off.
Moreover, if people stopped eating beef tomorrow, what would happen to the number of cows on the planet? Truth is, they'd probably go extinct. Creating a market for something means you get more of it, not less.
There was once a time that expanding cars were considered an environmental plus. In the 19th century, the horse was the normal mode of transport, and they ate (carbon neutral) grass and then... erm.... expelled it. In the street. For people living in cities, moving to the automobile was a huge environmental win. What we know now is that you just moved the pollution from one spot to another. Instead of sitting on the road, it puffed into the air. Electric cars just move it again, so instead of spewing it into the air here, we spew it into the air over there, then at some point we have a huge pile of toxic waste to dispose of (but it's not right here right now, so it's 'green')
The environmental industrial complex is real. They're always looking for new things to package up and sell you as environmentalism, damn the actual consequences. Chasing trends makes people feel good, so it's a good marketing strategy, but it's a bad policy. They want to take your money and keep you spending, not save the planet.
People can be perfectly happy using less, and that's the best thing we can do. You can't sell that though, so we keep having products thrown at us by companies hoping to make money. The entire establishment is trying to reframe consumption as something you're doing that will save the world, and as long as we keep accepting that narrative, the planet and the human race is doomed.
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