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minus-squareinari@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down6·2 months ago“Reasonable” tends to be whatever allows people to continue living their lifestyles without dealing with the slightest discomfort. See how far that’ll get us.
minus-squareFlameBurningOrange@fedinsfw.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down6·2 months agoYou first mate, show the rest of us how it’s done.
minus-squareAzzu@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down3·2 months agoHow do you know they’re not already doing it?
minus-squaregtrcoi@programming.devdeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·2 months agoDoing what? Owning a reusable straw? Subsistence farming? It’s hard to know where the bar is set here. OP’s meme should have a 3rd panel for “rant about society and suggest nothing” because that’s most of what I see from activists.
minus-squareesa@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoStraws aren’t a climate thing, they’re a trash and ocean pollution thing, same as with Q-tips and bottle cap tethers.
minus-squareLwL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWhile true, this is not easily solved and also I think the meme is more about people who then use this to justify total inaction. Doing anything at all is still better than doing nothing.
“Reasonable” tends to be whatever allows people to continue living their lifestyles without dealing with the slightest discomfort.
See how far that’ll get us.
You first mate, show the rest of us how it’s done.
How do you know they’re not already doing it?
Doing what? Owning a reusable straw? Subsistence farming? It’s hard to know where the bar is set here.
OP’s meme should have a 3rd panel for “rant about society and suggest nothing” because that’s most of what I see from activists.
Straws aren’t a climate thing, they’re a trash and ocean pollution thing, same as with Q-tips and bottle cap tethers.
While true, this is not easily solved and also I think the meme is more about people who then use this to justify total inaction. Doing anything at all is still better than doing nothing.