Thankfully, it’s rare to encounter outright climate denial in public these days. But it is still common to hear justifications for delaying action.
One of the most pernicious and intellectually lazy arguments is the familiar nugget – that “Ireland’s emissions are too small to matter”. It’s a line still advanced by some politicians and business leaders, and, astonishingly, even appeared recently in a report published by the Irish Academy of Engineering.
Australia is terrible at this. We do nothing but digging holes and shipping coals. Somehow the fact that we manufacure fuck-all and ship everything in from PRC absolves us of any responsibility.
An Aussie politician would step over 1000 virgins to fuck the environment.
South Australia is going okay, this time of year, we can go days with out using fossil fuels for electrify. We’re let down by the transportation sector though…
Individual action is a myth invented by the FF lobby as a smokescreen for the mega-polluters who could actually enact a significant reversal and choose not to because money. I’ve been aware of the problem for decades. It didn’t do shit. Humanity is cooked, so try to enjoy it while it lasts.
The article is talking about countries that are not adhering to international pacts because they are small
Much like the floods worsened by intensifying climate conditions, one raindrop is too small to matter.
Wasting time searching for a single-solution answer for fixing the problem is as stupid as trying to prevent a flood by building little dams to catch individual raindrops. Or especially just not even trying anything
