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My doing something or not doing something is not going to impact what China, India and developing nations are doing in the slightest. The worlds leading polluters and the fact that they are still developing nations and they total sum of the harm they do to the environment, won't be offset by me choosing paper over plastic at the super market.
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Yes of course it will. Consumers like you and me can effect change. Voters like you and me can effect change. How do you not see that?
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I don't have a problem with accepting that simple fact. All you are talking about is feelings.
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No. I'm talking about economics. I'm talking about pollution, wasted energy, stupidity, and the incredible laziness of some individuals like you who are happily spoon-fed lies by companies like Exxon and "politicians" like Trump.
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What you are "doing" is so that you can feel better about yourself, virtue signal to your peers and help maintain your own delusional belief that you are morally superior to others.
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Wrong. What I am doing is making a personal choice about what I drive, and what I eat. I don't like to buy gasoline because it's expensive, it pollutes, it feeds terrorist countries, and the companies that make it are irresponsible in all parts of its refinement. Electric cars are faster than gasoline cars in the same class and require less maintenance too. (5 years in, not a single brake job!). I bring my own bags to the grocery store, and buy local as much as possible.
1 Person alone would make no difference. But many people changing their habbits can make a big difference. You don't want to change which is bad enough, but you think that changing won't make a difference, and that's worse.
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You aren't making a difference at all.You just want to keep telling yourself that you are.... and that is for YOUR PERSONAL BENEFIT.
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It's for both my personal benefit (I save money) AND its for your benefit too. The world has something like 7 billion people on the planet, and we are consuming resources faster than the earth can support because too many things such as gasoline-powered cars are inefficient modes of transportation for alot of people compared to other methods. How do you not understand that?
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If you could show me that I could make any sort of difference to offset the pollution coupled with the population explosion in the nations which were the worlds worst offenders, i'd be happy to make real changes. But if you're petty arguments are rooted in nothing more than personal attacks and personal feelings and have nothing at all to do with reality, i'm not interested.
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Exactly! You are not interested.
Information about what you can do to help has been available for a long time already. If you're not going to do anything to help that's your problem, but if you attempt to justify your position, you'd better make sure you've got all the facts or you will be laughed at.