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Opinion: You Are Not the Problem — Climate Guilt is a Marketing Strategy (news.climate.columbia.edu)

submitted 1 year ago by the_medium_kahuna@lemmy.world to c/green@lemmy.ml

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[–] ebikefolder@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I earn less than 30K, and spent a few hundred here, a few hundred there, over the years, in renewable energy co-ops in my region. In total, my share of those installations now produces more than I consume. Our next project: charging stations for EVs, although I don't even have a car.

I don't have to have my own panels or windmills or chargers.

Yes, ballot box. Of course ballot box! And at least new combustion engine cars, for example, will be a thing of the past in a few years, here in Europe, thanks to ballot box. But I don't want people to buy a Tesla. I want people to buy no car at all. And I want countries to tax the crap out of fuel for both surface and air transport. But how realistic is this ballot box solution?

We need both. Individual behaviour and ballot box.