We recommend four widely applicable high-impact (i.e. low emissions) actions with the potential to contribute to systemic change and substantially reduce annual personal emissions: having one fewer child (an average for developed countries of 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent (tCO2e) emission reductions per year), living car-free (2.4 tCO2e saved per year), avoiding airplane travel (1.6 tCO2e saved per roundtrip transatlantic flight) and eating a plant-based diet (0.8 tCO2e saved per year). These actions have much greater potential to reduce emissions than commonly promoted strategies like comprehensive recycling (four times less effective than a plant-based diet) or changing household lightbulbs (eight times less).
None of these are practical choices for an average anyone because the vast majority of the product of our labor is stolen from us. Yet, we’re asked to sacrifice to preserve those corporate profits.
No. It’d be insane to make sacrifices for the benefit of my oppressor. Instead, I’ll make larger sacrifices for revolution and my neighbors.
Could just stop running one cruise ship for like 15 minutes.
And, we could enforce existing EPA regulations in a meaningful way upon industrial production.
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None of these are practical choices for an average anyone because the vast majority of the product of our labor is stolen from us. Yet, we’re asked to sacrifice to preserve those corporate profits.
No. It’d be insane to make sacrifices for the benefit of my oppressor. Instead, I’ll make larger sacrifices for revolution and my neighbors.
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