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[โ€“] Flygone@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not immediately but they'll stop producing if people stop buying. Just takes a lot of people to have any meaningful change. And that starts with every single one of us.

[โ€“] boonhet@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

And that'll never happen, because everyone else will ignore you and just buy the shit anyway.

It NEEDS to be regulatory change. Shaming consumers into not consuming doesn't work. Oil companies want you to think it works, that's why THEY invented the concept of the carbon footprint. To make everyone ignore real solutions that could actually work.