How do you figure that? If I buy one less Widget, that's one less Widget that needs to be restocked, one less Widget ordered from the factory, one less Widget added to the production requirements estimate, one less Widget's carbon footprint. Seems like simple math to me.
If I tell ten people about my strategy and they buy ten fewer Widgets, that's ten fewer Widgets' worth of carbon footprint.
If you factor in material mining, transportation, production, transportation, storage, transportation, and packaging trash, that's a lot of reduction.
Not only that, my life is simpler, I spend more time making meaning rather than consuming, and am overall happier.
Or... I can waste my time trying to affect the political system, which I will never move a nanometer with all my effort, or affecting the corporations, whom I will also not move a nanometer with all my life's effort, etc.
> How do you figure that? If I buy one less Widget, that's one less Widget that needs to be restocked
But that’s fucking useless. It is simple math and the math is that you’ve moved the needle on carbon output from one company by 0.0000001%.
An advertising campaign that associates that widget with Devil worshippers probably moves the needle two orders of magnitude more than that.
Solving climate change is a global numbers game. If you’re not changing more than your own behavior, you are effectively complicit and not doing anything to stop it.
> If I tell ten people about my strategy and they buy ten fewer Widgets, that's ten fewer Widgets' worth of carbon footprint.
See, but this is the only bit that has any meaningful effect. This is you being political and affecting change.
You’ll quickly realize that your individual reduction is completely irrelevant in total harm you’ve reduced.
If I tell ten people about my strategy and they buy ten fewer Widgets, that's ten fewer Widgets' worth of carbon footprint.
If you factor in material mining, transportation, production, transportation, storage, transportation, and packaging trash, that's a lot of reduction.
Not only that, my life is simpler, I spend more time making meaning rather than consuming, and am overall happier.
Or... I can waste my time trying to affect the political system, which I will never move a nanometer with all my effort, or affecting the corporations, whom I will also not move a nanometer with all my life's effort, etc.