Respectfully, this seems like moving the goal posts.

Energy companies and governments are best positioned to hedge against future consequences of burning oil. It's exactly because we depend on them for a certain standard of living that they can shepherd change, but they serve stock prices not society.

It's a leadership problem where the actors with the most knowledge and resources to combat the problem can hide behind a version of "it's too big to fail" and then when it all falls apart leave everyone in the wind.

It's infeasible and unreasonable to think that in order to criticize and advocate for a change in society, that person needs to be outside of it. Having an iPhone doesn't change any of what they are saying.

The impact of the plastic material for those products is a fraction of the energy required to make them and run our modern life. Clean power and getting rid of fossil fuels that are burned for energy is the most important thing here.

Nah, it’s the companies that lobby to maximize profit. Cities used to be human scale, but cars took over the streets.

Now we know thousands of people die every year in car accidents but it isn’t a priority for governments because freedom to give a shitload of money to oil and car companies matters more than human life.

Nobody said oil was going away entirely. But we're well past the point we should still be burning it for locomotion or power. And given what we're seeing with microplastics, we should probably be rapidly trying to move back to glass where appropriate for home supplies.

No. The decision of any individual consumer will always be millions of times less impactful than the decisions of the leaders in these organizations. They should be held to account - not the individual buying what they need to get through life.

I'm genuinely curious - what is your account of how the hole in the ozone developed and how the problem was remedied?

We'll learn a lot about how you view climate crisis by learning about how you think about the ozone crisis.

Price in the carbon footprint of these products and see if they're still so attractive.