You need a car to get to work. How are you supposed to not buy oil? The point is the fossil fuel industry gave us no real alternative, you don't have to eat at a restaurant to survive but you need a job to.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No I don't. I don't even have a driving license.

It's also not just about cars. Oil is in other products people can try to avoid. Everyone can do something. Everything between voting for the right direction to changing your whole life around it. It doesn't matter where, as an individual, you can exist on that spectrum. As long as people don't just throw their hands to the air and deny all responsibility.

[–] EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Yea, bc you're German. Americans aren't so lucky, and nothing constructive comes from acting like that makes you superior to Americans, who for the most part are literally forced to drive places

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If the restaurant is the only source of food around, what do you do then? Not eat?

It transpose into the fact that North American societies made car centric cities with poor public transit where many place that aren't a city, you need a car to literally do everything.

And even cities cut budgets for public transit.

A simple example from a friend of mine. He makes an effort to go to work by public transit instead of taking his car.

If he takes his car, it's a 10 minutes ride. If he takes public transit, it takes him an hour to get to work. I wouldn't blame him for taking his car to get to work.

[–] alci@jlai.lu 1 points 9 months ago

Well, ten minutes by car probably means he could gobwith a bicycle !