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  1.  @whysocurious7366  Who uses these fossil fuels? Y'all act like these corporations don't provide products to Westerners/global North. He's right to point out that we should be the ones to do most of the sacrifices and it's literally what the video says.
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  2.  @terrystevens3998  That was true years ago but now, most of Chinese pollution and emissions come from national consumption, not exports. Also, factories in China are owned by the Chinese not foreigners.
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  3.  @Planet.Xplor3r  That's such a stupid idea. Even Earth after an environmental collapse will be more habitable than Mars or the Moon.
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  4. China already has implemented the one child policy for decades, what more do they want? 😂
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  5. The more we wait, the more extreme and least acceptable to the public the required change will be. IMO, we're definitely fucked and that's why I'm impressed by people who still try to push for change. Like I want their hope.
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  6. Is it that impossible to do both? To be individually aware and active but also collective minded? I don't see any pros with this mindset of "it's not good to remind people of the effects of their consumption"
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  7. The IPCC report he talks about was released last month, not a few months ago. That means you either never even heard of it or that your time perception is messed up (like mine).
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  8. "Structural change is beyond your purview" Is it entirely false? Also, personal decisions and collective action are not incompatible. What is collective action? A demonstration once in a while, signing a petition, voting every other year, showing up at a local council? That leaves a lot of time for other ways to educate yourself and see how you can enact change in your own life so that you realize this change is possible on a larger scale. Or just research what kind of change you need to change you need, even if it's currently out of your reach, meaning you will look out for collective proposals. Carbon footprint is one of the ways I know how our lifestyle needs to be overhauled. That transportation but also heating, food, housing, consumption etc were a lot more emitting than what I thought. That we have a very small carbon budget compared to how we spend it, that we are living on credit and well above our means figuratively speaking. Telling that we have no agency in our own lives doesn't motivate people for common change. The more I watch your videos, the more I think they are filled with bad, basic takes.
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  9. It was a long ass word salad, no wonder we are losing on the left with those type of meaningless, irresponsible discourse.
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  10. "Could have been a positive idea". It can and is a positive idea. You literally dismiss it just because dumb companies use it, not because it's a bad metric per se. Icarbon footprint is important. Knowing in which sectors we are wasting CO2 is important. Being clueless doesn't lead you to ask for change. Critics of carbon footprint sound like they arr pushing for willful ignorance and total irresponsibility.
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  11. You act like we can't even reduce a little bit our fossil fuel consumption or that our society is efficient in terms of energy use 😂 The goal should be to get rid of most of it and on many issues we can. Efficient urban planning gets rid of cars, good insulation gets rid of HVAC energy consumption etc.
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  12. Fossil fuels and slavery did create and build our modern world. It doesn't mean we didn't or can't change our ways but it's true. And the American lifestyle is absolutely tied to the overconsumption of fossil fuels so to curb climate change and carbon emissions, it also needs to be challenged. I don't see any of these statements as controversial or false. I might have missed something though. As for eco-fascism, is it really a fundamental component of mainstream far-right politics in Europe? Environmentalism for them is limited to greenwashing and doesn't have any real impact on their platforms. I think they still ally with the right to sabotage any environmental real policy.
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  13. Canada doesn't have one of the lower carbon footprints in the world. What are you smoking??? India, Africa and other poorer/developing nations have the lowest. Do you really think that Canada, with its America lifestyle and fossil fuel industry is low emitting??? 💀
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  14. How so?
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