I disagree, even though I’m someone who deliberately lives modestly and car-free, trying to eat as little meat as I can.
I’d like to draw a parallel from what you’re saying to gaming - there’s been a lot of bad video games released by these big studios like Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, EA and others, and many people don’t like that, they naturally want quality instead of whatever buggy/uninspired games/slop are being fed to them. A very popular slogan I’ve seen on sites like Reddit is to vote with your wallet, which is something that your comment is suggesting, and yes, it does sound good on paper but it literally doesn’t work due to reddit’s limited reach, people actually not holding up to their convictions and just the fact that many people don’t really care. If those very well known game studios keep putting out slop every year, people will still buy them.
Now back to carbon footprint and emissions, and same points apply here - even though there’s a lot of people who are aware of the climate crisis, not many are willing to/have the conviction to reduce their emissions, same with “buying their shit”. Even if you go green personally, you don’t cancel out someone who doesn’t care about their emissions who owns a monster truck or whatever.
And going to the “only political action matters”, that’s what needs to happen - an organized, radical attempt to at least alleviate climate change. You can’t just leave this to the ‘free market’ of capitalism, crossing fingers and saying prayers for people to stop buying products as it’s just impossible, capitalism isn’t effective at reacting to current and especially future disasters. Look at covid for instance, governments didn’t have time to wait for months so free market could react to covid and provide face masks, disinfectants and other things, so they just intervened and spent their money for that, invalidating the free market.
Sorry for the long post, though if there’s anything I’d agree with you it’s that slacktivists that refuse to follow what they preach/changing their lifestyle are just cringe virtue signalers, at least for the most part.
I disagree, even though I’m someone who deliberately lives modestly and car-free, trying to eat as little meat as I can.
I’d like to draw a parallel from what you’re saying to gaming - there’s been a lot of bad video games released by these big studios like Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, EA and others, and many people don’t like that, they naturally want quality instead of whatever buggy/uninspired games/slop are being fed to them. A very popular slogan I’ve seen on sites like Reddit is to vote with your wallet, which is something that your comment is suggesting, and yes, it does sound good on paper but it literally doesn’t work due to reddit’s limited reach, people actually not holding up to their convictions and just the fact that many people don’t really care. If those very well known game studios keep putting out slop every year, people will still buy them.
Now back to carbon footprint and emissions, and same points apply here - even though there’s a lot of people who are aware of the climate crisis, not many are willing to/have the conviction to reduce their emissions, same with “buying their shit”. Even if you go green personally, you don’t cancel out someone who doesn’t care about their emissions who owns a monster truck or whatever.
And going to the “only political action matters”, that’s what needs to happen - an organized, radical attempt to at least alleviate climate change. You can’t just leave this to the ‘free market’ of capitalism, crossing fingers and saying prayers for people to stop buying products as it’s just impossible, capitalism isn’t effective at reacting to current and especially future disasters. Look at covid for instance, governments didn’t have time to wait for months so free market could react to covid and provide face masks, disinfectants and other things, so they just intervened and spent their money for that, invalidating the free market.
Sorry for the long post, though if there’s anything I’d agree with you it’s that slacktivists that refuse to follow what they preach/changing their lifestyle are just cringe virtue signalers, at least for the most part.