{"id":3390,"date":"2023-12-06T13:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/?post_type=docs&p=3390"},"modified":"2023-12-06T13:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:26:25","password":"","slug":"rebecca-solnit-big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.youngreenhub.eu\/bg\/docs\/rebecca-solnit-big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Solnit: Big oil coined \u2018carbon footprints\u2019 to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate-conscious individual choices are good \u2013 but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action<\/h4>\n

Personal virtue is an eternally seductive goal in progressive movements, and the climate movement is no exception. People pop up all the time to boast of their domestic arrangements or chastise others for what they eat or how they get around. The very short counterargument is that individual acts of thrift and abstinence won\u2019t get us the huge distance we need to go in this decade. We need to exit the age of fossil fuels, reinvent our energy landscape, rethink how we do almost everything. We need collective action at every scale from local to global \u2013 and the good people already at work on all those levels need help in getting a city to commit to clean power or a state to stop fracking or a nation to end fossil-fuel subsidies. The revolution won\u2019t happen by people staying home and being good.<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/23\/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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