How weird.
Putting all responsibility on the seller.
Why not
"car owners should consider climate effects of pumping the car with gas"
"shoppers should consider climate effects of buying food in a grocery store"
Putting all responsibility on the seller.
Why not
"car owners should consider climate effects of pumping the car with gas"
"shoppers should consider climate effects of buying food in a grocery store"
[1] https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...
It's a share responsibility. If the seller is domestic (under local laws), they're responsible and can't sell if sales doesn't follow climate change regulations. But if seller is foreign (not under local laws), then buyer can be help responsible.
It's a transaction so both parties should be responsible.
Groceries, unfortunately the carbon cost is not obvious, food grown in one country, shipped to another, processed and packed in a third country. It’s all a convoluted mess. If the companies were required to track and report their carbon cost on the box, maybe we could start talking about personal responsibility.
In general burning fossil fuels is way of externalizing a cost onto the planet (cheap energy as long as you don’t account for the environment). Companies receiving this free subsidy from the environment have an advantage over companies that don’t receive the subsidy, and it is basically impossible to detect who is receiving the subsidy from the outside. We need to correct this evasion of normal market forces.