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Originally Posted by GirlySports
That's a lot a sacrifice Itse which I agree would be good. No government would survive proposing that. People are not making adjustments.
Electronics at least 4 years? We live in an Instagram world. A running up personal debt world.
As I said earlier, the majority of people are not going to support a cause that involves sacrifice. I could give a bunch of Calgary examples.
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Telling companies to make products that last is not a sacrifice to anyone except the companies. Most people would love it if they could buy a dishwasher that lasts 10 years or a pair of jeans that they know would last at least two years.
The way electricity is produced doesn't affect almost anyone directly. It's not a sacrifice to anyone unless you own a coal plant or work there.
Driving an electric vehicle isn't significantly different from driving another vehicle, once you get used to it.
Planting trees does not include sacrifices to almost anyone personally. (In fact it could create a lot of jobs because it's somewhat labor intensive.)
The "people" against this are mostly just companies with a lot of propaganda money to spend. They have a vested interest in making it sound like cutting down on carbon emissions would be this huge sacrifice, but it's just not true.
That's the ridiculous part about this. People talk as if we need to do something really hard, but we really don't.
We need to do something that's quite easy, that we know how to do, that we know why we need to do it, that would save huge amounts of money and hassle in the long run and would affect relatively few people directly. Especially compared to how many people are affected and will be affected by climate change.
We just haven't done it because we are lazy, stupid and gullible.
It's pathetic, and rightfully shamed by teenagers.