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I flew to Ireland so my relatives could meet my children for the first time. I make that trip maybe once every 3 to 4 years.
If your response to climate change is to shame ordinary people for occasionally getting on an airplane while billionaires take private jets, oil companies fight renewable energy, and massive corporations produce pollution on a scale no individual could dream of matching, then you're aiming your anger in the wrong direction.
My "once every few years" flight is a rounding error. Telling regular people they shouldn't travel, see family, or enjoy their lives because corporations and the ultra rich have spent decades wrecking the climate isn't environmentalism. It's just shifting responsibility onto the people with the least power to fix the problem.
Or in short: I motorboated your fucking mom across the ocean.
You probably are in the 10% - anyone earning over $55,000
You feel entitled to an "occasional flight" so i assume your overall behavior leads to emissions typical for this group. You use 9 times you share.
A roundtrip flight from London to Dublin alone is already 25% of you yearly CO2 budget. From New York to Dublin its 80%.
But sure, the billionaires....
Remember this on your next flight, look down at the once green now brown wasteland and then at your children. It was you doing this.
Tell me more about how if we all live in tents, that will offset the pollution from the data centers being built. Maybe if I walk my kids to daycare on the days it rains (I already walk them in good weather), the government will invest in green energy. Defending billionaires? Son, you must be lost.
Best way to travel, tbh.
the people doing the occasional flight and driving to work in their car are the same assholes voting for politicians who enable billionaires to own private jets and fly themselves.
While this is Ireland, look across the sea at the UK, in a sane world those ass hats flying occasionally and driving their car to work would all be voting Green, to both move the Overton window and to tax billionaires, ban then fron using private jets, make transport more environmentally friendly and lower emissions. Similarly Canada, Germany, France, NZ, Australia and on and on
We do know who is to blame, every voter in a democracy not voting to move the Overton Window to environmentally sustainable politcans.
Shame on them for perpetuating the orthodoxy and enabling the destruction of the biosphere and shame on people for not calling them out on it, the outcome of which is the inevitable collapse of civilisation.
I don't recall mentioning how I voted, so that's a wild assumption.
And if the standard is that you're not allowed to criticize an economic system unless you've completely removed yourself from modern society, then nobody is allowed to criticize anything. I assume you didn't mine the silica, manufacture the chips, build the device, or construct the network you're using to post this comment.
Participating in a system because it's the system we currently live in isn't the same thing as endorsing every consequence of that system.
Let me know when you're living off the land detached from society completely. I'll make sure to send you a post card.