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Crawlerado t1_j1ls7d6 wrote

Reply to comment by AJTTOTD in Asked to conserve electricity on Christmas eve. What is even going on anymore by CoolHandMike

Exactly and this is how it’s going to be for our foreseeable future. Push the responsibility onto individual citizens while giving corporations a free pass. I’m sure all the abandon malls and mega warehouses shut their lights off this weekend….

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TransporterOffline t1_j1lx6xg wrote

Your reply and the one above hit the nail on the head. I have no clue why it is always our individual responsibility to make these changes when wasteful corporations make up double what we consume. At my office, they don't recycle. No one in the entire suburban office park recycles. So one of my coworkers set out a bin and takes our recycling to his home. Like, why does everything have to roll down to individuals like this when companies have the same access to light switches and recycling services and energy-saving fixtures we do, but they won't.

Edit: It reminds me of the phrase "We aren't going to paper-straw our way out of this problem."

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ellipses1 t1_j1msr9c wrote

The vast majority of what you “recycle” doesn’t get recycled… so people stop doing it because it was a facade

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TransporterOffline t1_j1mxzpn wrote

Which really drives home the point that corporations talk about social and environmental sensitivity, then lie and cheat to extract a better profit at the expense of what society really needs, while shoving the responsibility onto individuals.

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ellipses1 t1_j1my7r5 wrote

I don’t understand how your comment is relevant to what I said

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