Anonymous wrote:
Hey OP,
Do you still buy made-in-china crap?
Let’s be honest here.

Hey PP, OP here. No, I don't. I could list everything I've not done/done for the last 2 decades here, but it would be lost on you.

Being alive is going to cause a footprint. What needs to happen is corporations need to change their ways. You can be zero waste and companies are still cranking out tons of plastic we don't want or need. Slowly we are catching on as a group. Only after seeing straws stuck up a turtle's nose has there been a movement to get rid of plastic straws. We need to go back to simpler ways. Every food item is individually wrapped. Every time a human eats something, multiple times a day, times 7.7 billion people, is how many billions or infinity pieces of plastic that are piling up. We would need to go back to an agrarian society where everyone makes their own food, but people are enslaved by corporations. Corporations force people to put time in at a job and then they can't feed themselves without buying food in a store encased in plastic. It's f-ed up. Humans are really smart, and even more so really stupid.

and you know what? It might be too late to walk these things back with regulation and reduce consumption. But we can't help mitigate the problem and tried to solve it unless we acknowledge that there is in fact a problem.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Hey OP,
Do you still buy made-in-china crap?
Let’s be honest here.

Anyone?

All the people that cry that humans are destroying the earth take part in it daily and do very little, if anything, to live cleaner lives. Instead, for some very odd reason, they want to government to force feed some laws down everyone's throats and then they will participate. Why don't you do something on your own if you actually care instead of waiting for big daddy government to hold your hand? Hard to believe you actually care.

That's not really fair. I am super conscious about what I consume. My existence would probably annoy you with the the.minjmalism, re-,using, and spending on things I can't avoid buying.

But that is a luxury and a privilege to spend 100 on a fair trade sustainable t shirt. This problem isn't going to be solved at the individual level, though it wouldn't hurt for all of us to drastically reduce our excessive consumption.

The governments of say the US and China need to regulate emissions and sourcing. We need huge high-level policy changes that the individual just isn't capable of

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Hey OP,
Do you still buy made-in-china crap?
Let’s be honest here.

Anyone?

All the people that cry that humans are destroying the earth take part in it daily and do very little, if anything, to live cleaner lives. Instead, for some very odd reason, they want to government to force feed some laws down everyone's throats and then they will participate. Why don't you do something on your own if you actually care instead of waiting for big daddy government to hold your hand? Hard to believe you actually care.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Hey OP,
Do you still buy made-in-china crap?
Let’s be honest here.

Anyone?

Not OP. I bought some chinese made lights for my bike not long ago.

Anonymous wrote:
Hey OP,
Do you still buy made-in-china crap?
Let’s be honest here.

Anyone?

Hey OP,
Do you still buy made-in-china crap?
Let’s be honest here.

It’s so bad and disheartening, I can’t even read about it anymore

Anonymous wrote:Humans are the worst creature God created. Most destructive miserable creature on this planet.

so then how can you stand living with yourself....

Humans are the worst creature God created. Most destructive miserable creature on this planet.

This saddens me. I fear for our children’s future.

1 million species extinct. We are more than decimating life on this planet.

Quite simply, capitalism will destroy all of us. But what I can never figure out is how do the uber rich expect their children and grandchildren to survive?

“Since 1992, we’ve been telling the world we have a problem,” Watson said. “Now what’s different? It’s much worse today than it was in 1992. We’ve wasted all of the time .?.?. the last 25 years.”

http://m.cnn.com/en/article/h_b516f36bebf1a4a180aa7be9d95e8f36

"Business as usual is a disaster"

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/united-nations-offer-report-global-biodiversity-62843657

“We have never had a single unified statement from the world’s governments that unambiguously makes clear the crisis we are facing for life on Earth,” says Thomas Brooks, chief scientist at the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, who helped to edit the biodiversity analysis.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4