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  • To do what? Ban combustion engines to force everybody to change their individual carbon footprint? Any sort of actually massive climate legislation is going to impact a lot of peoples life directly.

    You’re arguing that we shouldn’t vote for legislation to prevent climate change because it is going to impact people’s lives?

    And instead we should just hope that 100% of the worlds population just does the right thing?

    Remember when we tried to get people to wear masks during the pandemic?

    That appoach doesn’t work. That’s why the fossil fuel industry is paying marketing firms to convince the public to focus on their individual carbon footprint.





  • Here is the definition of divesting.

    You seem to be confused about what individual carbon footprint is because you’re talking about business choices as if they are an individuals choices.

    Business owners divesting has nothing to do with an individuals carbon footprint.

    If you can put pressure on your pension provider, local government, church, favourite charity or any other organisation you care about to drop funds with them in entirely then all the better.

    This is accomplished by group action and legal/political pressure which is the opposite of reducing your individual carbon footprint. That is the systemic change I am saying we need.

    Not telling people they need to walk to work so they don’t burn fuel. Or get solar panels to stop funding coal, when they live in an apartment.


  • Why wouldn’t they be responsible for the emissions from the fuel they provide? The fossil fuel industry has entrenched themselves and made it as difficult as possible to not use their products. Even to go so far as to influence how our cities are built.

    I’d love to not use any fossil fuels but I can’t afford solar panels or a heat pump so I have to either burn gas or my family freezes to death. I have to get my electricity from coal because my family can’t survive without electricity.

    I don’t have a choice because of the choices made by the fossil fuel industry.




  • So you’re saying you’re plan is for individuals to choose the choice that is not an option?

    You’re saying the solution is for everyone to stop using electricity?

    Stop driving to work and earning money is the solution?

    Buy solar panels without a house to put them on?

    This is why the individual carbon foot print doesn’t matter. Because it is a systemic problem. So the large majority of people don’t have the luxury of being able to reduce their carbon footprint. And it is such a small percentage to begin with.

    This is why BP is paying a marketing firm to convince the public to focus on their individual carbon footprint.

    We need systemic change not paper straws.




  • Why wouldn’t Chevron be responsible for the emissions for the fuel they provide? The fossil fuel industry has entrenched themselves and made it as difficult as possible to not use their products. Even to go so far as to influence how our cities are built.

    I’d love to not use any fossil fuels but I can’t afford solar panels or a heat pump so I have to either burn gas or my family freezes to death. I have to get my electricity from coal because my family can’t survive without electricity.

    I don’t have a choice because of the choices made by the fossil fuel industry.






  • Right, the centralized control systems that get bloated with software are not unique to EVs. Like I said. And those centralized control systems have more inputs and outputs to interact with on an ICE than on an EV because an ICE has more components.

    I’m not a hobbyist. I was a master automotive mechanic for over 20 years and I am now a software developer. I feel the need to say this because you are restating the same points I already address in a more verbose way as if you are hoping to make it sound too complicated for the average person to refute.