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Author	MaryQofScots
Comment	Everyone is responsible but when 90% of people do not give a flying fuck there's about 10% of people being collectively responsible for everyone else and that does nothing. I vote green and have a pretty decent carbon footprint. However, you can't make all individuals be responsible, my giving a shit doesn't make anyone else care. Also my carbon footprint is nothing in comparison to the whole of China and deforestation in Brazil and the impacts that is having on the environment, there is literally nothing I can do about that and even everyone in this country doing their bit can't overcome what is happening to the Amazon. My personal choices can never offset that. We need global change and that HAS to be political. We need everyone in every country to vote green. Now that isn't gonna happen, we need legislation to ensure that they won't make those products cos I'm sorry but poor people in poverty cannot afford Lush plastic free shampoo. That's some middle class bullshit. Most people will not ditch their car for an electric one. I'm sorry but me using a re-usable coffee cup and a water bottle doesn't offset some neighbour who even has a car. A lot of people do not have the choice even, if you are poor you just have to buy the cheapest thing. We should be legislating to prevent the production of these products so that the cheapest options are still ethical. That's not gonna happen, everyone being individual responsibility does nothing if some governments will give tax breaks to polluting companies in order to create jobs and improve their GDP in the short term and not give a fuck about the world. Every government and 90% of people of just in everything for themselves. Global politics needs to change, because companies just shift their manufacture to countries that WILL let them pollute and they still end up in our shops, just not produced in our country.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/cdeirl/extinction_rebellion_parked_a_boat_in_town/etwedi4/
Created	Tue 16th Jul 2019 9:33am
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Everyone is responsible but when 90% of people do not give a flying fuck there's about 10% of people being collectively responsible for everyone else and that does nothing. I vote green and have a pretty decent carbon footprint.

However, you can't make all individuals be responsible, my giving a shit doesn't make anyone else care. Also my carbon footprint is nothing in comparison to the whole of China and deforestation in Brazil and the impacts that is having on the environment, there is literally nothing I can do about that and even everyone in this country doing their bit can't overcome what is happening to the Amazon. My personal choices can never offset that.

We need global change and that HAS to be political. We need everyone in every country to vote green. Now that isn't gonna happen, we need legislation to ensure that they won't make those products cos I'm sorry but poor people in poverty cannot afford Lush plastic free shampoo. That's some middle class bullshit. Most people will not ditch their car for an electric one. I'm sorry but me using a re-usable coffee cup and a water bottle doesn't offset some neighbour who even has a car. A lot of people do not have the choice even, if you are poor you just have to buy the cheapest thing. We should be legislating to prevent the production of these products so that the cheapest options are still ethical.

That's not gonna happen, everyone being individual responsibility does nothing if some governments will give tax breaks to polluting companies in order to create jobs and improve their GDP in the short term and not give a fuck about the world. Every government and 90% of people of just in everything for themselves. Global politics needs to change, because companies just shift their manufacture to countries that WILL let them pollute and they still end up in our shops, just not produced in our country.