I'm doing my part!
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It's a fair observation and very agreeable when the intent is to focus deserved ire on the primary element responsible for the wretched state of the world. But this could also be used to absolve oneself of inaction, deny any personal responsibility, to justify exhibiting similar selfish behavior oneself, or to feel smug about demoralizing or shitting on people who seek to improve society somewhat.
As the meme itself implies, the exploitation class is the problem that needs to be addressed. No need for anyone else to catch strays.
I don't see it as a way to justify inaction. I see it as a way to be forgiving of myself if I mess up sometimes.
Example: in the worst of my grief, I threw away some recyclables because I just couldn't wash them out properly. It took everything just to eat.
I didn't pile guilt on myself over it. I recycle 99% of the time, I never litter. I have to check my pockets for random trash before doing laundry.
Utility companies, corporations, and rich people are not cleaning up after themselves and their inaction almost negates everything me and everyone I personally know can possibly do.
Knowing they are dumping faster than I can shovel doesn't mean I stop shoveling. I still want and actively work to leave this place better than I found it.
Those 91 jets just mean I don't feel overwhelming guilt when I fail. I just try to do better next time.
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The thing is just that its not that one woman, but hundreds of millions if not billions of people that follow trash separation rules.
This would actually have a pretty large effect, however sadly the recycling system is broken and often just a complete lie in many places in the world. -
how hard is it to recycle, seriously? the way people complain about it you'd think it causes rashes..
In the US it's nearly impossible since the pandemic. Most waste collection firms are dumping both cans in the same truck and not recycling anything. Plastic recycling in particular turned out to be much more expensive than waste management was prepared to keep doing so they stopped.
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Wait till you hear how much pollution the army creates when they decide to mobilize an entire camp for no reason
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In the US it's nearly impossible since the pandemic. Most waste collection firms are dumping both cans in the same truck and not recycling anything. Plastic recycling in particular turned out to be much more expensive than waste management was prepared to keep doing so they stopped.
Surely that can't be legal?
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It's a fair observation and very agreeable when the intent is to focus deserved ire on the primary element responsible for the wretched state of the world. But this could also be used to absolve oneself of inaction, deny any personal responsibility, to justify exhibiting similar selfish behavior oneself, or to feel smug about demoralizing or shitting on people who seek to improve society somewhat.
As the meme itself implies, the exploitation class is the problem that needs to be addressed. No need for anyone else to catch strays.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]We need collectively to be pinching pennies ecologically, but doing so on drinks at the roulette table is not really responsibility; it's delusional cope.
Until we pry ourselves away from that civilizational casino, possibly with guillotines, nothing else really matters.
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Surely that can't be legal?
Its not illegal, which is how things work in the states.
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Eat the rich, but not with plastic cutlery!
Even better: compost the rich!
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Surely that can't be legal?
Recycling is voluntary in the US, not legally required.
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reduction in single use plastic and reduction in co2 emissions are two SEPARATE goals not one -
Even if most every day people would lower their carbon footprint as much as possible, corporations would simply say "Neat, we can pollute more, we're within target emissions", and they would
They do say that already, since that is how carbon credits work.
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Even better: compost the rich!
Shit the rich
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What’s the point here? Shitting on a good deed because someone else has done something bad? Arguing that small contributions don’t matter because others cancel that out? Great, now everbody feels entitled to shitty behaviour because they’re not the most rotten apple in the barrel. I’m sure many good things will come from that line of thought.
The rule is “Don’t be a jerk”, not “Don’t be a jerk if you’re the only one”
wrote on last edited by [email protected]So, this 'personal responsibility' recycling thing was pushed by corporations to excuse their wasteful bullshit.
Except the situation really is bad enough we need to be pinching fucking pennies ecologically. So we should be doing stuff like this (and actually recycling things rather than just dumping them, as happens now)
But none of that matters while billionaires are fucking around; you're just ordering cheap drinks at the craps table so maybe you can play a few more rounds. Your gains will be harvested to fuel the degenerate tendencies of the wealthy. They would matter in another world, be necessary in another world, but don't in this one, where they are necessary but wasted.
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The thing is just that its not that one woman, but hundreds of millions if not billions of people that follow trash separation rules.
This would actually have a pretty large effect, however sadly the recycling system is broken and often just a complete lie in many places in the world.This is why I recycle.
But it still sucks to see so much work undone by a few greedy fucks.
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It's a fair observation and very agreeable when the intent is to focus deserved ire on the primary element responsible for the wretched state of the world. But this could also be used to absolve oneself of inaction, deny any personal responsibility, to justify exhibiting similar selfish behavior oneself, or to feel smug about demoralizing or shitting on people who seek to improve society somewhat.
As the meme itself implies, the exploitation class is the problem that needs to be addressed. No need for anyone else to catch strays.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It's not attacking the girl or suggesting she should stop. She's doing the right thing. It's attacking the rich psychopaths ruining the environment in ways that are orders or magnitude greater than my life will ever do.
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Even better: compost the rich!
Eating them creates compost in the long run anyway, but with the added benefits of also providing protein to hungry poor people without the damage from factory farming livestock.
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Surely that can't be legal?
It's hard to blame them entirely when the facilities to separate and recycle the waste were never fully built in the US and we spent decades shipping bales of consumer recycling to Asia where it was often deemed too dirty to use for recycling and was burned instead. You can find tons of great articles about the collapses of consumer recycling and the unraveling of the plastic recycling lies sold to the American public, it came about 2021 and continued to be a hot topic through 2023. Today, my shitty neighborhood has collectively stepped down from a proper waste pickup with bins, to 4 guys and a truck who collect and take the waste to a nearby incinerator. We know it can't be an "official" waste collection company by the "We Love Junk" signs on the truck enjoying our cans, but we've been told this is fancy hand collection that is quieter than standard trash trucks and we should be grateful. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
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Wait till you hear how much pollution the army creates when they decide to mobilize an entire camp for no reason
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Wow, I'm starting to think the military might be a net negative on this earth.
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Welcome to dystopia. Time to choom it up or die trying.
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Wow, I'm starting to think the military might be a net negative on this earth.
Just the army
