• NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People need to make a conscious effort to buy less shit. It’s easy to blame corpos but we create that demand.

    If it doesn’t solve a problem you have, you don’t need it.

    • Syldon@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Or we could create enough green energy to satisfy that demand. I totally agree that we have a social problem with greed. This is not something any government will fix because more taxes makes their live easier. Fight the battles you can win, not the ones you can’t.

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        1 year ago

        We don’t have time to spin up enough infrastructure to match current production with renewable energy. Consumption must come down until then, and only scale up once the new infrastructure can handle it.

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          1 year ago

          Not according to some.

          No you cannot do it overnight, but it will never happen at if we do not start. The first step is to stop giving money to fossil fuel companies so they can gouge us further with higher priced energy.