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Extend this to climate change:
Bob is responsible for .00000015% of emissions.
Shell is responsible for 5%.
But 95% of marketing for a more climate-friendly lifestyles is aimed at Bob.
Or to put it another way, Bob will emit roughly 15 metric tons of CO2 in his lifetime.
Shell emitted roughly 50 million tons in 2023 alone.
But let’s tel Bob he needs to change his lifestyle.
While all true, if Bob drives a gigantic pickup, Bob can fuck right off too
I mean, yeah, I get the sentiment. But continuing to fight amongst ourselves and excluding potential intraclass members from the fight before we fight the ruling class is truly a self defeating tactic.
Look at the trump movement. There are so many potential comrades. His entire lie that got people on bird was “fighting the elite.” Too many people fell for that that could truly be on our side if we tried.
I dunno. I harbor those same feelings, so I’m not trying to high road you, but we were talking about class solidarity, I just feel like we need to extend that to the rest of the people in our class that we’ve been artificially pitted against and manipulated into fighting.
Focus your energy on the bigger threat
Reminds me of that old children’s book
Bob Rolls Coal, Coal Rolls Bob
All of that "climate friendly lifestyle" marketing at bob is done by oil and gas companies. Are you tired of hearing about your "carbon footprint"? Good, cause its bullshit propaganda made up by big oil and gas.
There was a huge campaign to shift the blame to consumers so that people would be too busy scrutinizing themselves to scrutinize the oil and gas industry. The sad part is that it fucking worked because people are dumb.
It's those plastic straws! Surely we'll save the planet, once Bob stops using those.
if we halve 6 and two third million Bobs carbon emissions per year it would do as much as getting rid of shell.
shell would probably rather kill 3.3 million Bobs per year than cease to exist.
both strategies have compelling arguments.
I’m def no math person, but wouldn’t it take like 70x-800x that? Because halving the yearly emissions of someone who emits 15 metric tons in their entire lifetime vs the company emitting 50 MILLION tons every single year?
It’s early and I’m typically very bad at math, so maybe I’m wrong