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.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] reverendz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

"Think globally, act locally" and other such clever slogans that seemed so logical and made so little impact.

How about "round up the heads of oil companies and deliver them to a firing squad?"

Not as much zing to it though.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That can never work. You can’t boycott a business into not producing.