You’re being downvoted, but a shit tonne of people are justifying the atrocities because it’s againstna people they hate.

Yeah, they are not known for just letting go of someone for no reason. This guy must have been dusty balls useless

Theres only one person to blame and that’s the person who lit it on fire. It’s very convenient for no one except the ultra rich to have any agency in the world but it’s not how reality works

Except this arson wasn’t done by rich people. It was locals who want to use the land for farming cattle.

Absolving individuals for their behaviours is a great way to go nowhere. We all make choices

BNL and Animorphs? What is this a crossover episode?

You see it with everything from food quality, cigarettes, fuel. The standards set in the West prevent so much random shit we never acknowledge.

Cool. And what happens to the company? We can for sure just shut down all oil companies today, and what happens then?

People buy oil. They give these companies money because we want what they have. We need to change our behaviours or the polluting does not stop. It just means our money goes to a new oil company.

Who will you buy your oil from then?

We need to change the way we make energy. Killing oil companies is a secondary consequence of switching to renewables

Trump should have been in prison orange years ago. But there’s a better chance of him becoming president again. He’s protected by the American right wing and that is probably enough to keep him not only safe from legal consequences but to keep him in power. They won’t drop him until voters do.

Prove me wrong america

To a degree that was shown in the hot parts of the Cold War like the Vietnam War or the Congo Crisis where they provided logistical support. Like the US, or more accurately as a counter to them, they fiddled with countries for years to get outcomes that benefited the USSR ideology.

You could argue that it’s easier to shake up someone else than lead a full invasion force, but the US has learned that lesson too and followed that same play book. Invasion is harder than giving someone the tools to destroy themselves.

It is wild to see this. It’s amazing how quickly things change.

Yeah, Russia was incredibly powerful in its heyday, both in global influence and military power. Think about how people are worried about climate change now, then double it. That was the threat of nuclear war that kept people awake at night for decades.

After the time of the collapse we found out how empty a lot of their power was. How much of their achievements were less an unstoppable train and more of a rocket that couldn’t be refueled. They had power but they never figured out how to make it sustainable.

Canadian conservatives saw how locked in American conservative voters are and said gotta get me some of that

Expect Poilievre to start raging about drag queens soon

Italians were already mad that Americans added water to espresso

Part of the problem came from the fight for economic dominance during the Cold War. The fight to prove which was better, Capitalism or Communism, made a lot of people go nuts with economic theories

Really, extras have been being replaced for decades with lots of ways. You don’t need to fill a stadium with people, just use cut outs. Or CGI in an army instead of paying for a lot of people and costumes. This is the next logical step

How sad life must be for you to be so powerless to affect even your own actions. I’m sorry

You do realize that leaded gas came about because of market pressure right? That people had a choice at the pumps to choose from leaded or unleaded?

That is my entire point. Companies only do things that get them money.

Consumers drive markets, companies follow markets. Change how you buy, companies change how they pollute.

Do you know how many cars were purchased in the last year alone? 13.75 million.

You may not be able to afford a car change but millions of other people are. Guess what oil companies see there? Dollar signs. Because the ICE cars make them money. If those 13 million people bought EVs don’t you think maybe just maybe the oil companies would change tacts? Or do you think they’re cool with their profits going down?

You’ve spent so much energy absolving yourself of responsibility here. Maybe of we put that energy towards somethingore productive like choosing a meatless meal or looking at government rebates for electric cars or volunteering for an environmental NGO we might see more progress

remaining 26% are used for plastic and other products.

I don’t think you read your source. The little figure of the oil drum shows 6/45 gallons goes to other products, including some to pladtics. That’s 13% not 26. And it’s wrong to say all of that is plastic is hilariously wrong.

You could have saved yourself all that time and math and gone to a single source about how much GHGs come from domestic drivingbin the US. Here it is

The transportation sector is one of the largest contributors to anthropogenic U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

transportation accounted for the largest portion (29%) of total U.S. GHG emissions in 2021.

On-Road Vehicles account for 1,496.4 Tg CO2 equivalent

But maybe you’re thinking that the money Americans spend on gas in a year is piddly. After all it’s only $562 Billion a year. Pocket change for BP, right?

So do you think that eliminating that many tonnes of CO2 and that many barrels of oil from companies bottom line would have an impact? Maybe just a little itsy Bitsy tiny bit?

Or are you just going to keep pretending that consumer choices don’t drive markets and climate change.