“100 companies carbon blah blah I’m gonna do whatever I want” is the new climate change denial.
In her book Fixation, Sandra Goldmark has a quote that I really admire. She talks about how the ultra wealthy and oil corps are primarily responsible for destroying the planet, so why bother doing anything for the environment?
“because not taking these actions -individually- is even more ludicrous; it denies each of us a place in the world. If our actions are part of the problem, then they must be part of the solution.”
She then quotes Jonathan Safran Foer:
“the ways we live our lives, the actions we take and don’t take, can feed the systemic problems, and they can also change them. Both macro and micro actions have power, and when it comes to mitigating our planetary destruction, it is unethical to dismiss either, or to proclaim that because the large cannot be achieved, the small should not be attempted.”
tbh the funniest part in the fellowship of the rings is when pippin drops the helmet down the well in balin’s tomb and we’re just listening to it drop while everyone stares at him and he flinches at every clang and then when it’s over gandalf goes after his whole life i die every time
