Is the obsession over our carbon footprints based on propaganda?

@SirenCalledLuce why not?

@pianoplayingsteve Because it goes against the large institutions and computations made rich by the status quo.

It’s expensive, difficult and for some industries commercial suicide. The only reason reducing out carbon footprint makes any sense is not because it’s going to fill pockets, but because one day it will fill lungs.

@SirenCalledLuce and in pushing for this, it will make people who invested into ‘clean energy’ very rich too. Not to mention the expansion of the state needed to enforce this.

@pianoplayingsteve Why is that any different to making oil men rich? The US and Arabian states certainly made a penny or two out of that.

@SirenCalledLuce the difference is that 1. What I described allows for unjust expansion of the state, and 2. It does not involve the global cooling, sorry warming, sorry climate change, sorry climate emergency claim.

Both allow rich people to profit regardless

@pianoplayingsteve Suit yourself.

@SirenCalledLuce you are welcome to refute what I said. I appreciate genuine disagreement

@pianoplayingsteve I’ve no appetite for a disagreement. It doesn’t matter if the rich get rich off oil or wind turbines. The system is still the same and there’s no point wasting anytime wishing it otherwise. It’s always been that way, it’s always going to be that way.

@SirenCalledLuce exactly, so we need to get rid of these fanciful ideas that we have this massive impact on the environment, or whatever the next scare piece is, as it is just used by the mega rich to get even richer. We will better save humanity by serving your community

@pianoplayingsteve And what if my community benefits from the jobs created, the lower energy tariffs, the engineering training opportunities?

In any case nothing said and done here makes the slightest difference. People think the internet as a platform for their own brand of revolution. It’s no more significant than a dog marvelling at its own reflection in a puddle.