What is the word for this? When you try socialise problems like this to try shift blame? I’m still surprised how many people don’t know thar “climate footprint “ is invented by one of the bigger oil companies in a similar campaign.
On one hand small actions can lead to big change. On the other hand, no matter how many small actions are taken, this problem isn't going to be solved with government intervention.
But yeah, forbidding restaurants to distribute drinking water is probably not the right move.
This is one of those things that we teach small children so they can feel like they are contributing but never go back and explain to teens that we were bs’ing about. These kids then grow up with a bad model of how the world works. This dynamic is pernicious.
No amount of at home composting or whatever the latest peacock thing is will make a real dent.
those "certain companies" are exclusively energy companies. the energy they provide can be used for things like boiling water. it's good to hold companies responsible, but don't delude yourself into thinking individuals can't have an impact. the energy we use is a collection of a whole bunch of small things, added up (and a couple really big things, like driving cars and raising cattle)
Although honestly I wouldn't know what else to cook that uses less energy. Rice cooks for even longer, although less water is heated here.
And I'm well aware of the hypocrisy in me typing this on a plastic keyboard in a plastic office chair wearing synthetic clothing. I could have carved keycaps out of wood and made a typing device with an Arduino, sourced sustainable wood for a chair and bought "green" cotton clothing. I didn't, because plastic is cheaper and more convenient. But I'm not blaming Logitech for making the products I'm happy to buy.
You also start optimising your computer programs not by targeting the function that takes 90% of the time, but the utility method that takes 0.0001%, I see.
"Every little bit counts" thinking is one of the most destructive in society.
I'll gladly take an extra few minutes to make my pasta if it saves a lot of energy and emissions. But you do you, bud
They do it to provide consumers with energy and consumer goods. If consumers are more efficient or reduce their consumption then demand for these goods and services fall.
Shifting blame to companies to avoid personal responsibility certainly won't help solve the climate crisis.
Please dont participate in this co-dependent blame shift. Cook your pasta as you like and force media tp hold the real culprits accountable. Yesterday there was a thread on coal used to generate energy in various parts of the world. We could start by focusing attention to finance greener sources there.
Yeah I know, I sound like a hopeful hippie.
> Companies that intentionally take up greenwashing communication strategies often do so in order to distance themselves from the environmental lapses of themselves or their suppliers.
It was one fuel company who popularized the carbon footprint calculator, such that consumers don't focus on the massive harm the company caused.
That’s when you ratio water to home and tell people they need to save a gallon on their shower but you literally ship millions of gallons of water to SA.