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[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Individuals are essentially useless on a global scale but companies like BP aren’t drilling for oil to accomplish their sinister goal of warming the earth they are producing a product that all of us as individuals are purchasing.

It’s like you are in a dog park that’s covered in dog shit, just because there’s shit everywhere doesn’t mean you shouldn’t clean up after your dog. Telling other people they don’t need to worry about cleaning up their shit because the guy with the dog training school doesn’t clean up any of the shit from the dogs still makes you bad.

You cleaning up after your dog isn’t going to clean the whole park but doing nothing until a petition is done that enforces cleaning up your dog isn’t the way. I’m not asking you to spend all day trying to clean the park but you should at least do your best to not make it worse

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago

I’m not asking you to spend all day trying to clean the park but you should at least do your best to not make it worse

that is a useful mindset for those who fear a systemic solution.

the people who would have to organise instead spend their effort on other things, like cleaning up dog shit; Or arguing how much shit you need to clean up, before you are morally allowed to advokate for a systemic solution.

the more the anti-dogshitters are splintered, the easier it is for the pro-dogshitters to keep the status quo