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   Rich Puchalsky :anarchism: (richpuchalsky@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:32:33 JST Rich Puchalsky :anarchism:

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   • AvengingFemme 🦀🏴

   @AvengingFemme

   The whole concept of a personal carbon footprint comes from an ad campaign by British Petroleum:

   https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham

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     AvengingFemme 🦀🏴 (avengingfemme@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:32:34 JST AvengingFemme 🦀🏴

     i have just heard the phrase “my period’s carbon footprint” and i would like to scream

     why do unavoidably flawed but sometimes useful analytical frameworks inevitably get turned into weapons for shaming individuals

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     Rich Puchalsky :anarchism: (richpuchalsky@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 09:32:37 JST Rich Puchalsky :anarchism:

     • AvengingFemme 🦀🏴
     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer @AvengingFemme

     As well they should. I'm a low carbon emission person (haven't flown in decades, electric car, converted heating oil boiler to heat pumps) but we just did a large natural experiment called Covid on individually reducing high carbon emission behavior and it made no difference. If someone does any good at all for the purpose of getting society to change for the better then no one should really care how much individual high carbon they do.