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Originally Posted by Mull
Ha ha I can honestly see why you would make a leap that I want zero responsibility for my impact on climate change based on my last response to you, so all I will say is that isn't true. What I will say is holding our politicians to meaningful policies matters infinitely more then my personal actions. And I mean the word infinitely here.
And no, despite any previous words, I don't buy new bags each time, I just tend to have mind farts and forget to put them in the car or my hand a great deal of time. I invested in irrigation so I could water at 4am to help reduce water waste!
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I agree policies matter more than individual actions. I think that also includes the travel schedule of world leaders. I do think that when the focus is on something silly like travel schedules then you should expect it to come from someone who cares deeply about climate change and is holding individual responsibility very highly, otherwise it’s petty nonsense. Hypothetically, if the Liberals were pushing meaningful climate change policies that had a great impact, I wouldn’t care if Trudeau was acting like a fool and dumping motor oil down the kitchen sink.
For single-use plastics, though, you seem to be trying to play it off both ways. If it’s ineffective and enough people are like you who don’t care/forget to further reduce the effectiveness by a significant margin, then even if Trudeau uses it as something he can point to, nobody (including “the left” he’s pandering to) will care. On the other hand, if it is effective pandering and something he can point to as a meaningful action, then it shows that your personal anecdote doesn’t matter and doesn’t have a meaningful impact so shouldn’t affect policy.
You still haven’t come remotely close to showing why the single-use plastic ban should be reversed, only that you feel it shouldn’t have been enacted in the first place. Which is fined but given the costs of switching over in the first place, you have to do more than that.