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This kind of reasoning is why we are not making progress. It’s much easier to hold others to high standards when you’ve applied these to yourself first. The same goes for countries: it will be easier to pressure China/India when the West has done their part.
how do you expect people to apply those standards to themselves before they are applied to the biggest sinners? most people don’t even buy how bad it is
No, we are not making peogress because of your kind of reasoning. We need to make accountable to the bourgeois, the rulling class, even if the whole working class reduced its carbon footprint it would still not make a significant change, they must be replaced and forced to change their ways.
the thing is, i will refuse to behave until the bigger misbehavers are held accountable
This kind of reasoning is why we are not making progress. It’s much easier to hold others to high standards when you’ve applied these to yourself first. The same goes for countries: it will be easier to pressure China/India when the West has done their part.
The West can only “do its part” because we’ve shipped all our worst industries to China and India.
Doing our part includes reducing our consumption. Where things are produced doesn’t matter all that much for this part of the problem.
how do you expect people to apply those standards to themselves before they are applied to the biggest sinners? most people don’t even buy how bad it is
No, we are not making peogress because of your kind of reasoning. We need to make accountable to the bourgeois, the rulling class, even if the whole working class reduced its carbon footprint it would still not make a significant change, they must be replaced and forced to change their ways.