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Save the environment, compost a billionaire
Compost the rich, and eat the veggies!
They'd probably poison the ground they're composted into.
gotta remove all the plastic implants and shit, first, sure.
I learned from game theory that these situations are the equivalent of the prisoner's dilemma.
In the prisoner's dilemma, in the case where you only play the game once, cooperation has a worse outcome for you, regardless of what your opponent does. It is a dominated option. Only in the case where the game is repeated many times, and where both players are paying attention to their opponent, only in that case does cooperation become a useful option.
When people recycle, we are choosing to cooperate. But as nobody is paying attention to what we're doing, it is always the dominated option. We end up having to work more, and we don't get better results. And then we inevitably get huge betrayals.
But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't recycle. It simply means the game has shitty rules. That's why responsible government regulations are essential for environmentalism, if we actually want to see results.
Plastic recycling is literally pointless though.
It’s a farce to pretend that plastic can be reused/sustainable in any way. Most “recycled” plastic ends up just shipped off to pollute developing countries in Africa and Asia.
Its why I throw it in the bin! Rather poison my own landfill than someone else's.
The best solution is to try to avoid buying things with plastic, and repurposing plastic that you do have to buy.
It’s not really that much of an answer, but plastic recycling is entirely greenwashing by the industry.
I try where possible but companies have cottoned on to this and now charge more for the greener option.
" Oh you want to buy recycled paper towel that comes wrapped in paper and not plastic? Thats $2 more than the non-recycled one which is wrapped in plastic, cough up you green cuck! "
yup, china has mostly stopped plastic trash from the us, i think malaysia is making moves to prevent that too.
its difficult because plastic is basically toxic when you try to melt it or dissolve it into a usable plastic again, the process is probably more expensive too.
Me paying 5¢ for a plastic bag while the owner attends a wedding. Sounds about right
Even if Jeff kills every single puppy he sees we still have a chance to save one or two if we encounter them in our neighborhood
Jeff “allergic to philanthropy“ Bezos is an idiot but if we have a waterway next to our house we might be able to keep a bag or two out of it by getting folks to put skin in the game
(Normally I’d say “make bags cost 0.001% of your income so it’s all fair for everyone” but cheapskate richies actually might be reminded to grab reusable bags just to save a nickel, though IDK… Warren Buffet would not want to pay for a bag I do know that, cuz he eats McDs and pays exact cash change once his wife counts it out for him)
Yeah, the thing I hate about these memes is there's often an implicit suggestion that we're let off the hook for the things we can control.
The moral isn't "you can stop recycling now", it's "eat the rich, they're fucking up the whole planet".
My issue is, you using a reusable bag is wonderful, please keep that up. However, it is like dropping a eye dropper full of acid into the ocean. You are not changing the acidity of the ocean.
Dropper being 1mL Ocean being 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers
Bezo housing tons of servers, just to collect information to manipulate people into buying his shit products. Clear cutting huge plots of land for his fulfillment centers. We haven't even touched the amount of plastic waste sold to third world countries or dumped in the ocean. Also their AI service that helps boil the ocean.
Everyone on this planet could be negative waste producers. And still the mega companies will destroy our planet.
Lol yes.
Unless the individual happens to be exceedingly wealthy. In which case, they're the systemic problen
Mario bros! RISE UP!
Let the rich fear us, let the exploiters cower in terror. Systemic change requires dramatic catalysts, the money tree needs to be ripped at its roots and burned with revolutionary intent.
No longer will we bow down to the 'Almighty Dollar'
A cancer can only be 'cured' if it's completely removed and destroyed. Fuck Cancer, Fuck the Rich
I don't like this example, because it ignores that normal people take planes, too - sure it's less frequent, and it's usually public transport-style as opposed to just being one billionaire and their entourage per plane, but there's also just a lot more normal people than billionaires. Not to say that the pollution made for billionaires' personal lifestyles isn't massive or that rich people's economic and political activities aren't the main driver of climate change, but using such an obviously bad example makes it too easy to dismiss the general sentiment of the joke. If every non-billionaire stopped taking plane rides, it would make a difference for climate change - the issue is that rich people do their hardest to make sure that something like that doesn't happen. At least not until all the non-millionaires are so poor that they can't afford to travel anymore.
It's not just plane rides, it's private jets. If you're going to Venice, you're going to have to fly. But every person doesn't have to take their own individual plane
Or, they can take one of the the yachts. Don't forget about the yachts.
Sure we fly, but they choose to fly with the option that pollutes 50x more per person.
Yes, that's bad - so why not use that as an example? It's about as equivalent as we're going to get when comparing regular people to billionaires, and it's still literally 50 times worse (or whatever the actually value is, it's probably even worse considering that normal people usually share the plane with hundreds of unrelated people while on Bezos' plane, it's 100% just him, his "friends" and people who work for him).
A lot of us are trying, making decent sacrifices to reduce our already relatively negligible impacts on the environment. While those with money make significantly more of a negative impact instead of mildly inconveniencing themselves. Sure, refuce your impact, use less plastic, buy less shit. But none of that is really going to matter if people like Bezos are around.
I agree. Which is why the yoghurt cup example is so bad - it's hardly a personal sacrifice and it's very obviously low impact compared to vacation planerides. The issue is that things like plane vacations and other polluting consumer goods are actively promoted, and made even worse for the environment just to shave off tenths of percents in profits, by the ultra rich.
The system is rigged against the individual. The best choices are mostly the most expensive. The best solutions for climate change are blocked by corporate greed and crippled by national laws. And even if you're lucky enough to live in a country that allows you to have influence in who governs you, the biggest polluters are dictatorial regimes. Want to eat healthy? Sure, but pay more. When Covid hit and working from home got popular and air travel much less, there was measurable less smog in big cities. But companies now demand people come back into the office. Because shareholders don't like workers to have freedom.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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