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I get the argument he’s making, but the comparison between individual emissions, even when taken in large groups, and corporate emissions are so lopsided that these arguments always strike me as underhanded false equivalencies.

For example, Google emitted 14.31 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2023, while an individual American averaged around 13.8 metric tons of carbon dioxide during the same time period. That’s more than an order of magnitude if I’m doing my math right. Sure, individuals can always do better, but even collective action won’t come close to a single corporation’s emissions. Lay the blame where it actually belongs.

What we'd need to do is drastic reorganization of how we work and live and manufacture things. Things like:

1. Ban advertising globally since it increases consumerism. Regulate long term guarantees and repairs and interchangeable parts
2. Abolish all patents, in order to redesign the many thousands of industrial processes, legal hurdles have to be brushed away
3. Make industrial meat production illegal
4. Redesign cities to have all necessities within walking distance and no through traffic, similar to sovjiet style city planning
5. Make climate change denial or obfuscating a crime like hate speech
6. Nationalize all oil production

Of course, it's career suicide to seriously discuss those points. That's why we still get this inane babble from the "intellectuals".

The sad truth is we simply don't live in a reality that ever could have done anything about climate change. So it never even mattered if it was anthroprogenic or not. It was always like a physical impossibility, an economic-political impossibility.

Well done, that's exactly what those actually responsible and who are causing all the damage, and making all the money, want you to think. It's worse than useless, it's actively counterproductive, and serves to keep people busy with superficial nonsense that will never make a dent, while they continue to pillage all the resources.

At best, the person who wrote this demonstrates a vast misunderstanding of the scale of the problem, and either way, their piece serves those in power, not the cause against them.