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With all due respect, and I mean that sincerely, the advocacy of reuse reducing recycle on an individual level a bit of green washing.

The only single way we are going to save the possibility of complex Lifeform surviving to the next century on this rock is to stop extracting fossil fuels, like 40 years ago .....and direct air capture at least 2.5 trillion of the 3,500,000,000,000 tons of CO2 we have emitted into the atmosphere.

Any environmental or sustainable article not mentioning those two things is green washing. The biggest effort we could make us individual is to inform others of this dynamic and make a plan. Make a plan to show up and never leave until demands are met. How many shit sandwiches are we gonna eat?

Individuals are not going to make a difference in this particular instance. A mass peaceful civil disobedience dynamic is the only solution. That's how women achieve the right to vote that's how civil rights became in existence, that's how prohibition started and ended, that's how we ended the Vietnam war. It's the only way we're going to give ourselves any possibility whatsoever grandchildren seeing the turn of the next century.

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