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[-] kittyrunningnoise@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

right but if you keep participating in broken systems you'll just perpetuate them. gotta find ways out and take them... or make them.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The past few centuries have been carefully and slowly built to disempower people like you and me, and empower the newly-minted elites. It was the period of power consolidation for capitalism, when it fully overtook feudalism and other pre-capitalist systems over the whole planet.

You and me have no choice in how people’s lives are lived. The systems of control built in steer the masses into living exactly as they live.

We might individually live marginally less negative lives, but to completely eliminate our negative impact on the world, we have to completely remove ourselves from society.

The solution is not piecemeal changes and fixes to our individual attitudes and behaviours.

We have to completely change the system. We need to dismantle it and build something better from the lessons we learned.

Recycling cardboard and shopping at thrift shops is not it.

And I’m not sure we have many other options now, other than the old burning down the banks and guillotine routine.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

I travel as little as possible, I've been attempting to grow my own food in my apartment, I've rarely bought clothes and never bought furniture. A roll of paper towels lasts me months and I eat meat a couple times a week (I sprained my ankle stretching in bed before adding meat back in)

My carbon footprint is way too large, and IDK what to do about it. All I want is to buy a mountain and fill it with fruit, but it'd take a decade of destroying the world to get there

I'm a damn good programmer, and open to suggestions... This is a constant weight for me. IDK how to not make things worse

[-] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Have you assessed what makes up your carbon footprint? What gets measured gets improved

[-] Roggie@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

But when to not participate is to starve to death, there’s not much of a choice. There’s no public transit for me to use as an alternative to my car, I can’t afford to spend extra $ on stuff that’s healthier and less impactful on the environment.

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