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then stop flying? being unwilling to reduce your consumption isn’t a badge of honor in this discussion.

there are real problems, you identify yourself as a greater contributor than the average global person, then you imply that others in this discussion feel superior to people in “those countries”

maybe stop blowing the consumption of “the marginal Chinese child out of the water”?

think globally, act locally

i replied to the person below as well, but again, stop accusing people of genocide. fuck sake

also, to address the sentiments in your posts in general, if you’re against government intervention in farming, go ahead and give up farm subsidies, subsidies to oil companies, etc.

be consistent at least. lots of fingers on the scale, most of which prop up farmers and plastic producers.

you’re very specifically using rhetoric to:

- bring up other problems, which is definitely relevant because problems intertwine, but you’re avoiding focusing on any points regarding any single issue at a time. You still have to consider items, even when there’s a collection.

- bring vitriolic accusations (“GENOCIDE!”) into a discussion on plastic pollution, farming, and food supply. This is unacceptable.

1. try at all 2. realize that sometimes problems require multiple solutions 3. realize that sometimes multiple problems require empathy

There’s no need for genocide. Chill with the rhetoric.

Just educate people on sexual health and offer contraceptives. It works.

There’s room in all forms of society for regulation. Changing part of the economy isn’t automatically fascism. Slow your roll. Then slow your roll again.

You sit in privilege and sneer at the potential for change. Why change the status quo if you already feel comfortable?

Justify how the most powerful companies in the world, with the worst track records for dishonesty, and with mounds of scientific evidence toward the harm of their products should not be targets of regulation.

Or go ahead and start putting lead into your gas tank, like a hero who doesn’t listen to others.

Offer an economy not based on growth. The larger a company, the more sociopathic its aggregate behavior.

I’m not talking about going back to mom-and-pop farms. The fact that there’s an enormous supply chain that economizes plastic use on farms is what I’m talking about. Oil companies are more powerful than nation states.

I think we can sell people on reducing consumption and consuming more sustainable materials. How? Work less, have more time for leisure, go out and breathe clean air.

Also Malthusianism is real. But providing education and contraceptives works to reduce birthrates. No genocide needed.

Education has been tried. If that doesn’t work, yes you have to try something else.

“Just let them be assholes or else you’re the real asshole for not letting them be assholes” is not a good argument.

Let people buy any gun they want, because infantilizing.

Let people sell meth, because…

Let people withhold wages…

So you’re against putting economic disincentives on plastic pollution…

… but you don’t believe in market forces coming into play to drive consumers to less expensive food grown by farmers who use less plastic.

Yes lol. I can’t believe you have difficulty understanding that costs that go into producing food accumulate into the cost of the food.

Or is plastic pollution the part you don’t understand?

Either way, both are simple.

If you feel infantilized, that’s good because it means that you have a conscience and you realize that you are actually in the wrong.

Don’t act like an infant if you don’t want to be treated like one.

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