The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.

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      Stop putting the blame on the individual when corporations easily account for over 70% of global emissions and pollution. My gas powered car isn’t gonna change shit.

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          I shouldn’t be made to feel guilty for living my life in this hellscape that were forced to live in. I’m not going to inconvenience myself and make own life harder while the elite fly around in private jets and are more wasteful in a day than I could ever be in my entire life. I care about the environment and want things to change, but I’m not the problem. And if you are trying to make the common person bare the guilt for climate change, you’re part of the problem. I do what I can when I can. But to inconvenience myself or spend more of what little money I have to make a negligible difference compared to what a corporation or a single billionaire could do is not gonna happen. Simple as that.

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            We are all collectively guilty and we will collectively pay the price. Every little decision we make today echoes far into the future,. Being conscious of our mistakes can lead to better habits. Inaction is no longer enough, we mmdemand positive corrective action today! No one is perfect, but it is an option to live without a vehicle. Billions of people manage to live without the convenience of personal transportation. It is a privilege not a right.

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          Okay are you going to buy me an electric car then?

          The thing about being a radical is that you actually have to do something, not just spout bullshit online.

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          Those poor Iranians

          I suggest you try to analyse the data. Iranians have a very high energy usage per capita - at least as high as any EU country and probably higher. The country is a major oil and gas producer, and the population is accustomed to cheap petrol prices due to heavy subsidisation by the government. You won’t find many Iranians opting to use public transport for the good of the environment. Like Americans, they would rather sit in their own air-conditioned vehicles in interminable traffic jams.

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            You won’t find many Iranians opting to use public transport for the good of the environment.

            Lack of choice and potential lobbying from the car industry might also be factors here. I can’t imagine anyone who would drive if there was cheap and plentiful public transport available.

            Like Americans, they would rather sit in their own air-conditioned vehicles in interminable traffic jams.

            I’d say the same for the Americans. A century of pro-car policy removes the illusion of choice.

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            Um, excuse you, the climate catastrophe is a GLOBAL phenomenon! We are collectively guilty for killing our mother. Are you a Zionist agent, gaslighting us with anti-Iran propaganda? How are they supposed to switch to renewals when their economy is crushed by US sanctions at the behest of Israel???

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      Big yikes. As long as the grid that you plug your EVs into is based off of fossil fuels, you’re not solving anything.

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        My grid is based off of wind. Yours could be too. Demand it, importantly demand the laws that allow it be built . Many areas have outlawed them, or may as well because of all the red tape. They are standard these days and so permits should be shall issue in request for a standard design.

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      I’m not going to have kids so I feel like I can drive whatever because my carbon footprint ends with me. I’m also fairly fatalistic about climate change. Humans are too stupid to stop it and when enough of us die the problem will solve itself.

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        The main culprits are the big oil companies. They made the carbon footprint term to make us feel guilty and shift the blame from the biggest polluters.

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          Yep! And I bet it’ll turn out in a few decades that it will come out they were also behind the Doomerism we’re seeing a lot of on social media these days. “Well it’s too late so why try?” Is much more comfortable than “We have to sacrifice a lot of comfort, but if we all try really hard we can do it.”

          Weird thought, you ever think oil executives have nightmares about a global collective wanting to bring them to the guillotine?

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          Indeed they corrupted the narrative to avoid blame, to maintain profits.

          But who are they selling the oil to? Us.

          We are all sinners in this

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              I said in the first place that the companies hid the impact of pollution to maintain profits so fuck off with that.

              Do you think oil companies just make the oil products, emit the pollution and pump it back below the surface of the earth?

              No. We drove the cars that used it, we used the plastics, we asked for more and more and cheaper and cheaper and they said “sure thing bud 🤑”

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      Good point, I’ll just commute 2 hours both ways by bike then. Thanks for your contribution. /s

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        Yes, thank you for doing your part. Stick to bike paths when available. As another user pointed out, cars also contribute to local air pollution with brake dust and microplastics from the four big tires.

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      Most pollution from cars comes from the tires, not the gas burning. If you drive any car at all, you’re the problem

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        Citation needed… tires are a problem, but gasoline is farm worse pollution overall. Unless you cherry pick pollutant.

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          I believe most of the microplastics that are in everything we consume come from car tires. So probably less a climate change problem, but still an issue.

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            I did not know that. I wonder how much that attempted tire reef fuck up contributed to microplastics in the ocean and therefore our seafood.