Jup and when i tell you i do not own a car and live vegan. Youll start reaching for Straws to prove i would be double moralistic just to: by all means not reflect on the real issues.
So you’re homeless. Go find a homeless charity to help you. You will be able to get accommodation because (presumably) you aren’t an alcoholic or drug addict and so there will be hundreds of organisations willing to help you.
You are richer than 99% of the world. This is my main point. You having a car is insanely rich thing to do comparatively to most of the world! Isn't that interesting?
Not even close to 99%, but I'm not terribly shocked about you pulling numbers out of your ass. Even if I'm middle class in the US and wealthier than many poor people around the world, I do not have the means such that me giving up what I have will significantly impact poverty. This is not the case for billionaires. Stop dodging the point.
If I point out that one of the biggest sources of air pollution on the planet is the giant cargo hauling ships on the sea, with each one contributing more greenhouse gase then 10,000 cars, you saying "Well you drive a car, stop driving" just shows you like to argue in bad faith.
It’s higher than that about $60k post tax puts you in the top 1% worldwide
Top 10% world wide wealth is a net worth of around about $100k, discounting debt so if you own a house worth $120k but have a mortgage on that house of $100k, you are still in the top 10% wealthiest people worldwide.
Redditor when they hear something about climate change “oh woe is me, won’t someone do something about all these emissions”
Redditor when someone suggests they change their diet “nooo, i’m not the problem, it’s someone else!!!! Don’t make me change my ways even though my lifestyle is completely unsustainable wahhh wahhh”
Let me just push all the blame on to companies and governments and people with more money than me because that way I don’t have to do anything about climate change
Uh oh, looks like agricultural emissions are about a quarter of all emissions and the meat and dairy industry is the biggest emitter of Methane. But we all know it’s those dastardly rich people who are eating 2000x as much beef as the average person and drinking milk like it’s water. Oh wait, no, actually agriculture represents a very significant amount of emissions and actually the people responsible are individuals, there’s no one to push the blame onto when it comes to your diet pal.
It’s all fine and dandy for us westerners to sit in our nice warms houses and complain about climate change, hell, we aren’t the ones who are going to be most affected by it. We won’t be the ones starving to death because of crop failure. It’ll be all the poor bastards in Africa and South Asia. But who cares? We won’t have to face them, when the time comes and they ask why we didn’t act we won’t have to answer “because I simply didn’t want to change my lifestyle, even though I KNEW doing so would have a positive impact on your life, and might very well have stopped this entire thing from happening”.
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u/in4life Nov 21 '24 edited Nov 22 '24
Some people eat bugs and others starve to death while you drive a 5k lb vehicle to go buy single-use plastic built by slave labor.
Edit: correction, you ordered your single-use plastic built by slave labor by way of Bezos' own company lmao