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Focusing on energy users is a blame-shifting cop-out used by those committing ecocide
The carbon footprint is a concept promoted by the oil industry to evade responsibility for cooking the Earth. It’s past time that we see through this and simply stop them from taking fossil fuels out of the ground. Either WE do this, or we doom our own children.
Yes, it’s really that simple. We won’t be saved by politicians, by businessmen, by intellectuals, by anybody riding in on a white horse. WE need to do it.
The good thing is we can. The bad thing is it won’t happen unless we do.
When someone tells me what I can do personally to lower my carbon footprint, I simply tell them the truth:
“I have never owned a car. My home doesn’t have central air. I walk nearly everywhere. It doesn’t matter. This problems will not be stopped by individuals reducing their use of fossil fuels. It will happen only when fossil fuel energy is replaced by clean energy. People everywhere use the energy that’s available to them. Period.”
A single industry is destroying the climate and has been for decades. They’ve known exactly what they are doing all along. Even as the planet burns, they continue to maximize profits at the expense of every living thing on the planet…
