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The memes of the climate
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Yes, her fault individually, nothing to do with the systems beyond her control at the time.
"No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood." - John Ruskin
We are part of the whole.
Okay, but "that is entirely your fault, grandma" generates a lot more discussion than "yeah, but you were a participant in a system along with billions of others which hid its externalities until it was too late to do anything about them"