If every working-class person in the world decided this afternoon to install solar panels on their roofs and started biking instead of driving, the ice caps would still melt and the human race would still die off. It simply isn’t possible to end climate change while working within a system that sends all your products overseas in massive supertankers wrapped in unrecycled plastic that will be thrown in a landfill the moment it hits land - and practices like that aren’t going to go away because of your purchasing habits.
Nor are we gonna hit some magical point where using clean energy and reducing waste are suddenly the cheapest or most profitable option and so all the world’s big companies fall over each other to switch over. That has never been the case and never will be - the “free market” isn’t going to save us.
The fact of the matter is, this system needs to be torn down if our species is to survive. We don’t have time to delay the revolution anymore. Capitalism is extinction.
I have been seeing a lot of posts like this lately and what concerns me is not that they are wrong (because there is a lot of truth to the fact that big companies are a large part of what is destroying our planet), but that they almost seem like a blanket excuse for apathy. “Well, nothing I can do matters so I might as well not do anything.”
Please, please do what you can. Every little bit helps. You can’t change the world on your own, but we’re all in this together.
