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Most people reading this have little to no influence on how Exxon (for example) behaves. The ruling class has quite a bit. That’s why we need them to act.
We can all be environmentally conscious individuals. It won’t have enough impact without the cooperation of corporations and governments.
I'm taking fewer showers and smell like death, why are ConocoPhillips' stock prices seemingly not taking a hit?
The power is in the hands of the people by voting. Voting means you can then affect the big factors like regulation, taxes, promotion of alternatives, etc.
That is a completely fair statement.
Not using plastic straws or eating meat or whatever may well lead to a happier life for you; I won’t say it’s a bad thing to do that.
It will do fuck-all about the coming apocalypse, because not much of the damage is being done by the end user consumer.
If you live in the US, you have a golden combination of opportunity. The US does a lot of polluting and has a lot of ability to influence other places in the world that do, and with enough effort it’s actually possible for an activist organization to get them to listen and do things differently. It’s not easy, but the return on investment for trying to get the US government to regulate Chevron (to pick a random example) beats by like 10:1 or 100:1 the return from directly lobbying the Chevron corporation or just driving a more fuel-efficient car yourself.
You got downvoted because these folks aren't even class conscious enough to understand just how much power they yield outside the ballot box with things like strikes. It doesn't even enter into their brains that when you're talking about a political revolution you need to take revolutionary action.