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[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Please explain how you aren’t responsible for the emissions used to manufacture/deliver the product that you personally purchased.

if i don't buy it, will the producer have already done all the pollution? if i don't buy it, will any fewer trucks run? no. but if the producer doesn't make it, the pollution doesn't happen. the fault lies entirely with the producers.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What is demand?

Christ, the number of people who don't understand basic economics...

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago

This guy either has no sense of personal responsibility or he doesn't understand supply and demand for shit.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Personal responsibility has been an excellent tool for large corporations who make deliberate business decisions causing their manufacturing process to be worse for workers and the environment. Belief in personal responsibility as a serious value is what allowed a scam like recycling to be knowingly pushed by polluters for decades as a consumer-driven solution that requires little to no work from producers even though most products can't be recycled anyway and recycling is, in fact, not a solution to anything in and of itself.

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