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[-] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would like to add using e-skateboards, e-bikes, OneWheels, to the tail end of your suggestions. I'm 31, no kids, I've never owned a car and I use my onewheel for grocery runs, to pick up my prescriptions, etc.

Edit: I feel compelled to say "I'm doing my part" like Starship Troopers, lmao

[-] Marketsupreme@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you for doing this, but unless we have systemic change, this is just feel-good shit.

[-] myfavouritename@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I agree that the world does not need "you" to reduce your footprint to zero. But people do have collective power. If everyone reduced their footprint a bit, that would make a dent.

Even better is if everyone realized that the big polluting beasts are fed by us. Everyone withholding just a little money from these corporations makes the graph of their profit go from pointing up to pointing down. And they sit up and take notice at that, even if they are still making billions annually. They are literally a house of cards and we are the bottom layer.

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Nah, any reduction is good, including social encouragement for others to join you in things like going car-free. Plus, outside of the environmental effects, cars are horrifically unsafe things when used en masse, and every one we take off the road makes our neighbors safer.

[-] Marketsupreme@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

When you subtract 1 from 1,000,000, you wouldn't be wrong in saying there is a reduction, but is it significant enough? Or is it just febreezing a giant pile of shit?

[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

“I don’t want to change, everyone else should change”.

[-] Marketsupreme@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yep that's not what I'm saying but alright.

[-] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, I know. It's not like I intentionally did any of it. I just like OneWheels and never saw the point in owning a 4 wheeled death trap that costs money monthly(insurance), and could easily get my black ass sent to jail or shot. Especially while I was deep in my binge drinking.

[-] TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Systemic change is going to force the same lifestyle changes anyway.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Right? It's like people want to be forced at gunpoint to do the things they know they SHOULD be doing now. What the fuck??

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