• QuadDamage@kbin.earth
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    10 days ago

    Few reasons why it became unpopular on a political level

    • WEF types trying to shoehorn in their agendas and corrupting good ideas (walkable cities and sustainable food got turned into surveillance zones and eating the bugs)
    • Oil industry propaganda (obvious)
    • Boomers
    • Megacorps using it as an excuse to snuff out smaller competitors.

    If you want to save the planet you will have to start at the local level and practice regenerative agriculture.

    Polls show that voters don’t actually prioritize decarbonization and, crucially, aren’t willing to pay much to bring it about.

    Axe fossil fuel subsidies and replace them with green technologies like algae fuel grown with wastewater. So much of climate activism got pigeonholed into “just use an electric car bro” and trying to sustain pointless consumerism and terrible agriculture practices.

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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      10 days ago

      If you exclude the billionaires and everyone else manages their footprint, we’d still go to hell in a hand basket because of just how much influence the billionaires club has on the climate.

      Regulate the billionaires before telling the rest of us to doing sustainable activities.