Comment by guywithahat 12 hours ago
While I oppose climate hysteria, climate change is a consumer responsibility. You must limit your energy use, and you must choose better, more responsible options. Companies just do what consumers demand, they don't force anything onto anyone. There are lots of green energy power companies, I'd use one of them.
> [companies] don't force anything onto anyone
They don't force at gunpoint. They use cash and lies to convince. And the legal system to cow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_deni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger
You aren't wrong that we should choose better. But what do you do when so much money and effort has been expended to ensure so many people don't know what better even is.
Human cognition has weird failure models that modern advertising can exploit. Free choices can only happen with a free mind, but unfortunately we have this weakness that makes us prone to manipulation. (this is also exploited by political propaganda)
We can still individually make better choices, and also eat our vegetables, etc, but in the aggregate public policy is more efficient to make the large scale changes we need