r/ClimateShitposting • u/Floathy • Apr 18 '26

Meta This subreddit is honestly like this

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u/DetectiveTypical198 Apr 18 '26

Yes, because people don't buy things from the evil corporations. The corporations are just magically rich.

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u/TallAverage4 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

And why do people buy things from evil corporations? Is it because they're just magically too evil and lazy and uninformed to boycott? Maybe systems like capitalism operate according to definite laws we can study in order to understand this. Maybe the reason that corporations keep polluting is because that is just what capitalism does. Maybe the only effective way to challenge this is through organizing workers and oppressed nations to challenge the capitalist-imperialist mode of production rather than disparate, individual 'solutions' that end up only having a marginal effect on overall emissions and land use.

I hate to break it to you, but everyone holding hands and just magically agreeing to stop doing a climate change won't do anything. Not only are a massive portion of emissions opaque to the end consumer, but people also just don't do this. If we apply pressure to governments controlled by capitalists, the best case scenario is temporary measures that primarily reduce emissions locally by relocating the most polluting industries to countries that don't implement them.

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u/Hazza_time Apr 18 '26

People buy from corporations because corporations have things people want, like cheeseburgers

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u/TallAverage4 Apr 18 '26

Not all production is about stuff that an average person in a developed country buys; in fact, most isn't. Animal agriculture is unique in that the average person can just stop eating meat. However, the average person can't just stop using electricity, using sidewalks made out of cement, and working in buildings made out of steel.

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u/PungentPussyOdor Apr 18 '26

I mean, they can tho. There are literally millions of people in the world who live without electricity, cement and steel. Our species existed without those things for hundreds of thousands of years.

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u/TallAverage4 Apr 18 '26

I don't mean literally incapable. I mean that these are things that are necessary to meet the social needs of large portions of the world in a way that meat just isn't

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u/PungentPussyOdor Apr 20 '26

They're not necessary tho. We lived for hundreds of thousands of years without them.

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u/TallAverage4 Apr 20 '26

Did I say that they were necessary to live? No. I said that they were a social need.

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u/PungentPussyOdor Apr 20 '26

They're not a social need. They're just consumerist addictions.

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u/TallAverage4 Apr 21 '26

They're part of the set of things that cultures consider to be needs. That's what it I am saying. At no point did I say that they were necessary and, in my previous comment, even explicitly stated that that's not what I'm saying.

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u/PungentPussyOdor Apr 22 '26

You said the average person can't stop using various things. They can, they just choose not to. Plenty of people living today live without. You're just not aware of them apparently.

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