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[–] [email protected] 155 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago

yeah, this one hit me hard.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sadness and depression are my default states.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The long-term benefits are unmatched.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Literally nothing can go wrong

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I was going to say depressed not I guess I'm more numb at this point.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 months ago

That's the most depressing thing I've seen all day, and I've been doomscrolling since I woke up.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Highly relevant Calvin and Hobbes from this day 37 years ago: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16484504

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago (7 children)

What am I supposed to do about this?

I don’t have an excess of money I can donate to conservation. I can email my local politician but what’s that realistically going to accomplish?

I have no power to change this, but it just makes me feel shitty.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Kill your local billionaire. Lol

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My lawyer has advised me not to do this.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your lawyer is a pussy go for it bro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Take one for the team

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nono, don't do that.

Eat them instead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I am not putting that trash inside me

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Avoid products with palm oil. Orangutan habitat gets razed and replaced by palm oil plantations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Palm oil gives the most yield per acre of any vegetable oil. Replacing it would actually encourage even more deforestation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But not ones which have destroyed orangutan habitat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Deforestation is deforestation, you're just picking one species over another.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dismantle capitalism or end resource scarcity those are really the only options.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Far easier would be stopping the use of products made using resources that are created by this

Commonly in this case would be palm oil

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good luck with that, so long as profit exists fucking the planet over to benefit shareholders will as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you here to help fix the problem or to make everybody more depressed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Being realistic is the first step to solving anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Well when you can realistically get rid of profiting, let me know, I'll be taking small steps to make things better in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Are you here to help fix the problem or to make everybody more depressed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah we need to dismantle our entire economic system in order to prevent deforestation /s

Downvotes incoming, proper regulation is the actual realistic solution

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Is deforestation, fossil fuels, water usage, land usage, animal cruelty.

No need to be so myopic greed is the cause of all of these things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Enforcing this kind of regulation will need military intervention. The actual negotiable solution is to pay those nations to preserve the land. You can't stop them from making money from their resources.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You can not buy products from the country doing this.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Or from any of the companies that have that country's resources in their supply chains. It's hard for ordinary people to know what to do. Buying less stuff altogether isn't a bad place to start though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Good luck not buying soap, toothpaste, or shampoo. Palm oil is used in damn near everything today since it’s the most oil/acre around today.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah it’s fucking shit I’ll let you know if I think of anything. Probably will eventually idk 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You could come to Atlanta and help stop Cop City, as long as you don't mind getting murdered or [blatantly over-]charged with terrorism for occupying a forest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Don't you see? Falling into depression and learned helplessness is doing something.

/s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

can we all overthrow our govts and destory the corporations and kill all billionaires please

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i hate overthrowing and all that like i'll do it if that's what we're doing but it's just so much work and i rly like shopping

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

What if we give the other great apes the knowledge of agriculture?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

This is how a supervillain is born

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Malaysia and Indonesia don't give a fuck. Not like any of us can do anything about it.

If we stop buying their goods in the West it's all going to go to China anyway.

Our best bet is to take their DNA and maybe years in the future we can do something. Short of protecting that land with guns this will keep going on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

If I ever win the Powerball, I'm going to disappear, and spend my time hunting poachers and rainforest loggers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This photo is going to be on textbooks in a few years. Well, if we are still hoing to have textbooks in a few years.