#if not because itll change anhtbing then to tell our grandchildren we cared and we tried

[boethiah]

If you don't want to talk about it anymore feel free to delete this, but it's so strange how much people focus on the car thing and feel like you're indicting them personally for Climate Crimes (as if they don't already know it's bad) when there ARE other things we/they could tackle immediately without worrying abt infrastructure needs that would be more slow to come. The whole 'no ethical consumption' crowd may not have as much of an impact, individually, as large companies, but put all those individuals together doing, like, a voluntary challenge to cut their plastic/non recyclable materials consumption could have more of an impact than whining at a Tumblr blogger abt how you made them feel bad. And maybe I'm missing the point too, but I thought THAT was the point of your og post: that ppl have to accept that they as individuals, especially in the west, can't just blame large companies and HAVE to be more conscientious as consumers where they can, and in ways that WILL change the way they live bc the current mainstream western lifestyle is unsustainable. And inb4 you get an anon saying even THAT isnt accessible bc poor ppl, that dumb excuse isn't true bc I'm trying to do it as someone living paycheck to paycheck AND bc a lot of poor ppl who have no choice already do stuff that's considered 'Climate friendly' out of necessity. We all benefit from our western lifestyles, and we all do things that arent great for the environment, but I feel like the climate issue has more armchair activists than any other movement who will bitch online and then do next to nothing in their day to day life bc ~it's the companies that are evil~ and I'm sick of the do nothing attitude towards this shit. Even if you can't realistically give up your car, if you care, you can still make SOME KIND of effort.

see while I agree with you and appreciate this ask, even you're reading more into my original statement than I meant. What I was trying to say was "people in the west benefit from the climate catastrophe, and if its ever addressed well lose the privileges we have now" now granted im not very good at expressing myself but really that's all I meant to say. and to me the fact people are reading so much into it is a sign that it needs to be said because evidently some people aren't used to hearing it like that and don't know how to cope with the feeling this fact inspires.