The cross posting from tumblr begins now.
The infographic over there has a whole bunch more pages but I don't feel like posting all of them, here's the link if you want to look at it in full. https://www.tumblr.com/bellybuttonblue2/726484348216459264
I am resigned to a future on fire.
One of my dearest friends responded to this with "yeah but we should all do our best to still minimize our footprint" and I can't square my opinion of them as a rational person with this statement.
- Million. Years.
And that's just one company. I only added the images for the oil companies (having issues getting formatting right on here) but Amazon, Apple, Shein, Coca-Cola, are all way up there.
Friends of mine have worked at Starbucks and can attest to going through dozens of gallons of milk a day at a single store. If recycling is easy and set up, they'll do it. If not? That's one store. As of 2023 there are over 35k Starbucks worldwide. And that's just one company.
As long as companies get to dump oil in the oceans and get a slap on the wrist, as long as the rich in their private jets get to dump more CO2 into the atmosphere in an hour than I could in a year, I'm going to get pissed about anyone preaching personal responsibility around climate change.
This only even came up because we were discussing a different post about people with chronic illnesses and disabilities feeling terrible about using disposable silverware and such and not always recycling.
The point was that while minimizing your climate footprint is a worthy goal
you can't just decide to not be disabled anymore
but especially it kills disabled people
and specifically it kills disabled people as a distraction from not hanging those executives
capitalist overproduction means there is not an amount of personal waste you can commit that is not utterly eclipsed by that of the grocery stores in your region. it is not our fault that we need things and the only way to get things is to exist in the evil world! the crime was the transformation of resources into garbage in the first place, not trying to live in the garbage pile we were all left!
We could all revert to stone knives and bearskins - I assure you, I know how to hunt bear if I had to, although I've never done it with bow and spear - and it would not begin to counterbalance even the US military, let alone any large capitalists. It's nothing but misdirection and victim-blaming. Fascist propaganda.
