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rastilin

@TomMarcinko @aral

Yeah, people keep talking about recycling and whatnot, and yes, that's nice. But it's worth remembering that for example 95% of water use is industrial, so even if we all stopped using water for anything ever, humanity's total water use would only drop by 5%.

Also, I note that the top 10 are all either coal or petrolium companies and they're like 20% by themselves.

15 Jun 2023 at 15:01 | Wall-to-wall | Open on aus.social
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Sibrosan

@rastilin @TomMarcinko @aral

"But it's worth remembering that for example 95% of water use is industrial, so even if we all stopped using water for anything ever, ..."

And do those industries use the water just for fun? No, it's to make the products that we all keep buying from them...

15 Jun 2023 at 18:03 | Open on mastodon.social
rastilin

@sibrosan @TomMarcinko @aral

And they could use far less water with some research and legislation.

15 Jun 2023 at 18:07 | Open on aus.social
TobiWanKenobi

@rastilin

"Yeah, people keep talking about recycling and whatnot"

And that's how capitalism shits in peoples' heads. It tells the common people to do recycling, but then the capitalists use their connections, underlings, and their media companies to push for exceptions to be granted for their companies. And since policymakers need their support to stay in power, they'll add exceptions to laws that allow capitalist companies to "greenwash" their way out of it.

If we keep talking about recycling, we should simply include everyone and everything in recycling. That's what you call a closed-loop economy. You only use what you can reuse after its use. 🤷‍♂️

@TomMarcinko @aral

@rastilin

"Yeah, people keep talking about recycling and whatnot"

And that's how capitalism shits in peoples' heads. It tells the common people to do recycling, but then the capitalists use their connections, underlings, and their media companies to push for exceptions to be granted for their companies. And since policymakers need their support to stay in power, they'll add exceptions to laws that allow capitalist companies to "greenwash" their way out of it.

16 Jun 2023 at 0:05 | Open on kolektiva.social
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