I think the notions of blaming the 'corporations' is tired and petty.
Where do your parents work, by the way? A nice little mom and pop store? Doubt it. Corporations keep this country going.
And you're missing my point. Of course emissions by single people is far smaller than any large group, be it a business or even household, but my biggest point was instead of endlessly complaining, people need to either cut back and practice what they preach or come up with better methods for progress.
These constant scapegoats and vilification on how humanity lives these days is so juvenile and senseless, nor does it accomplish anything.
You have said that people need to do more than complain, but while it might feel like griping, one reason that it is important to keep talking about how we as humans can potentially harm the environment is not to "induce guilt on humanity" as you put it, but simply to raise awareness. People will not make changes to their personal lives, much less seek reforms on a local, national or worldwide level if they don't believe that anything is wrong.
Though you were critical of previous comments, whether you agreed or not what the previous users succeeded in doing at least is bringing you into the conversation at least, which is constructive.
When you first became part of the discussion the notion that climate change could even be man-made in any way you insisted was "nonsense" and "without a leg to stand on." However, now the conversation has shifted from debating the existence of global warming back to the original intent of the topic, what can we personally do to make the world better.
After viewing the data from NASA and continuing to talk with members of the community, are you perhaps reevaluating beliefs you previously believed? Are you still of the opinion that this is sensationalism and that humans play no role whatsoever in climate change? The sense I got from your more recent posts is that you not be so certain any longer, but I will let you answer that for yourself.
I think if you have come away with anything new then it would be a good thing because we should always keep our mind open for new scientific findings on anything that could present themselves at anytime. However, to reiterate I don't see this as fearmongering or scapegoating or arrogant, I see it as the beginning of a conversation, that is how progress starts.
I also want to add that in my state there are corporations that have actively prevented people from moving to solar and wind-based energy. A local church received donations of solar energy equipment so that they no longer had to use fossil fuels to heat and cool their buildings, however the gas giant Duke Energy has a monolopy on the town and sued the church and blocked them from using more effecient equipment so that they could only use Duke! The Republican governor at the time was a former of CEO of this same company and made laws that allowed the fossil fuel industry to do such predatory actions. He even went so far as to allow them to leak toxins into a state river, and helped them cover it up and did not make them pay for the 39,000 tons of coal ash that went our water system.
The same kind of corruption took place on the other side of the country when I was up north, this time however it was a very famous Democratic Senator voted against groundwater measures because her biggest campaign contributors were also from the oil and gas industry, particularly Exxon Mobil. This allowed said company to use the known carcinogen mbte that leaked into the water supplies of millions of Americans.
The reasons I told you these stories is to illustrate why many people feel frustrated and cynical because we have greedy politicians that let industries do what they want, and it does undermine our conservation efforts. This is a very different thing than individual people not taking action. To give you a larger scale example rather than simply regional ones the real reason that we pulled out of the Paris Accord is because it was what the oil industry wanted us to do.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations
The average corporation is trying to make as much money as they can, and there is nothing wrong with making money, but the reality is that they can use their money to influence the kinds of policies that we get, even though yes individually we do what we can by recycling, turning off electronics when we are not using them, not littering, plating a garden, and driving less. I don't think anyone here is saying that we don't have to do anything personally and bear no responsibility, so please I hope that you don't misunderstand. I think we are only dealing with the surface of the problem however if we just look at ourselves and our daily lives. It ignores the pink elephant in the back of the room if we don't identify larger-scale pollutant contributors.
