Because of the idea that those who provide energy, not those who consume are responsible. The same people who march against climate change are marching if their energy bills raise by 1%.
It is just too convenient to blame someone else instead of changing individual behavior, right?
Climate Accountibility Institue - unknown think tank...
Changing individual behaviour is
not going to solve the problem. You have been disinformed on purpose.
Forget that approach. It's simply doomed to fail because the effect is too small to matter. Even with theoretical 100% effort from the entire human population.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-your-carbon-footprint-is-meaningless
Fighting global warming takes systemic change, collective action, and cooperation (witting or not) among much larger populations, not just those motivated (and privileged) enough to make changes by themselves.
It takes legislation to shift the most carbon-intensive industries—energy production, transportation, and food production—who will not change on their own.
It is vastly bigger than any one person could possibly match, and requires major international policy changes, which are
very very hard to do. Look at the major industrial processes which are the main sources of CO2, like metal smelting or Fertilizer/chemical industries. We just don't have a suitable technology in place to substitute for the simplest thing: the HEAT.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-envi...nge-steel-cement-industrial-heat-hydrogen-ccs
To put that in perspective,
industrial heat’s 10 percent is greater than the CO2 emissions of all the world’s cars (6 percent) and planes (2 percent) combined.
We always hear about the meat, the cars, the flying etc. Nobody talks about industrial processes. But
THAT is what we have to tackle.
Trying to mess with everybody's life is not the way forward, and never was. Chucking blame at each other is pointless too.
We need an Engineering solution, with technology that
we don't have yet. That's going to cost money and time. And we are short of both.
When the
tobacco industry got caught lying about cancer and heart disease, and lung disease etc,
who paid the money?
The sick smokers or the
lying companies?
When the opioid crisis got blown open
who paid?
The Pharma firms like Perdue, that told everybody how
safe the meds were, or
the addicts?
That's how the world works, so please, spare us the Personal Responsibility mythology stuff. Know where that crapola comes from?
That's right,
the industries who are trying to wiggle away and leave us holding the bag.
The OIL companies are going to
have to pay. Period. They know it.
That's why there's all this effort to bankroll politics, disinform and polarize public opinion, push " Personal Responsibility" an oldie but a goodie, and install judges.
They are as transparent as ever.
Provoke libs to blame conservatives for stuff that doesn't matter, and jump up and down over people eating regular food.
Fool conservatives to shout " but but Personal Responsibility!" and buy straws and such nonsense.
And slink away from the bills while everybody blames each other.
I am on your side, and you should be on mine. Because they are definitely against us.
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