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Alisha Grauso@alishagrauso.bsky.social |
"You wouldn't use air conditioning if you care about the environment" is just the new "You'd recycle your plastic if you cared about the environment." Both purposely default to individual responsibility as the cure when the real issue is industries & companies. It's. a. distraction. It always is.
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Jim
@jim-gras.bsky.social
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Climate Change things that work: EVs, public transit, heat pumps, wind, solar, and batteries Climate change things that are distractions: everything else
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Jack Arsenic 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
@anniemouse.bsky.social
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My A/C runs 100% off of solar power. When my batteries are full and its hot, chill baby chill.
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Adam K
@adamkek.bsky.social
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To your point, a big part of this is design. Modern homes are designed to use ac when it's hot. We could design homes that are less demanding of that system, and that's an issue for the homebuilders.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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It's a good analogy, because most plastic waste is commercial packaging and tire erosion from heavier vehicles, and we as a society decided to annoy consumers who forget carrier bags at supermarkets and straws used (with plastic-lined disposable cups) now rapidly dissolve on contact with liquid
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it's not the band I hate, it's their fans
@lauramarie.bsky.social
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Speaking of plastic, anything other #1 and #2 plastic is usually unrecyclable anyway
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MikeyT00
@devilmikey.bsky.social
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Have you thought about just letting yourself die of heat in your apartment, you know, for the greater good? I thought you were progressive.
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Nataly 🏳️⚧️
@nightpups.bsky.social
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Using ac less, the environmental gains is like tiny. The money savings have a much bigger impact.
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LardDragonEzra
@larddragonezra.bsky.social
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It's also a way their way of saying "get used to the heat we will put you through, or die. It's your choice."
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David Farley-Brain 🍄One Duck at a Time.
@coffeedave.bsky.social
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I have a small solar array and air conditioning which keeps my house warm without ANY fossil fuels, not even burning wood smoke and consequent air pollution CO2. As much as possible I adjust drapes to catch sunlight and heat my house internals in the daylight.
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Dharhix
@dharhix.com
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I am positively 100% for this, but it's not wrong to tell people to recycle. And yes, I am aware that individuals recycling is only a small part of the solution. But it IS part of the whole solution.
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BlazeWarriorWolf/Swiftdrawer/Fireking492 ⚔️@COVIDaware they/them
@blazewarriorwolf.bsky.social
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The amount of plastic and energy huge companies use in just an hour is terrifyingly massive. Our individual impacts on the environment in terms of consumption are NOTHING compared to theirs.
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Dan Sandler
@danielsand.bsky.social
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Or Captain Planet telling us to turn off lights as we leave the room when the gigantic office skyscraper next door leaves every single light on “because it makes the city look pretty at night”
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Mike B
@madhominem.bsky.social
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if you're in Georgia and you're not running your AC, you'll wind up with mold all over everything in your house
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Ostrich, Booster Pack Blueskyer
@justostrich.com
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Recycling: American for "Spicy Landfill"
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Matthias Bergmann (is a bonkers little man) 🏳️🌈 ⚧️
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Yeah, like fucking BP: "Watch your carbon footprint! Drive less! Use less AC! Cut your plastic use! What do you mean, 'what about Deepwater Horizon'? Never heard of it, PLEASE don't look at the Gulf of Mexico-"
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Mach⚙️
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Eh, nobody dies when people recycle plastic though.
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Dr. ShinyGoth
@ghostingdani.bsky.social
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My grandmother's 93 and, in order to keep her house below eighty degrees in the Texas summer, the AC runs from dawn till dusk all summer long. Fuck anybody who wants to tell me otherwise.
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Dillon (6 Sided Games)
@6sidedgames.bsky.social
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Also, neither really make a difference.
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Genderflux Superfluid
@rewhan.bsky.social
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I'll turn off my AC just as soon as Microsoft shuts off its bullshit Plagiarism Engine and not a picosecond sooner.
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Somehow this skeet is being taken as an opening for a shot at Captain Planet and THERE WILL BE NO CAPTAIN PLANET LIBEL ON THIS TIMELINE.
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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I'm not saying we all don't collectively need to be responsible for what we put into, take out of, and do with the world. But I'm so tired of the shaming and "celebs in private jets are the real problem" armchair activists.
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