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[โ€“] 57 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"Humans are destroying the planet" has been a great way of off-loading the social responsibility aspect from multi-billion dollar gas guzzling AI-generated farts factory to Grandma, who forgot to put out her recycling last week.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    the prefix "some" is implicit there. but also, like, the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars. it's just that the hundreds of container ships going around the world is a way bigger problem still.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    the hundreds of millions of people commuting to work is a bigger problem than the thousands of people driving loud sports cars

    Sure. But it's not the individual commuters who are setting national transportation policy.

    The folks driving the sports cars (and in the yachts and private jets), on the other hand...

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