re: #269 Alouette

I have a hard time believing that my using cloth grocery bags and never eating fast food has any impact on the environment.

It does. It really does. The reason it doesn’t seem like it does is because not enough people do it. And that’s what depresses people and makes them give up. But it’s like any moral and ethical action. Would it have changed things in the South a lot, pre-Civil War, if you lived there and chose not to own slaves and chose to pay fair wages to free black men? No, the society would still have been a shitty, fucking disgrace of a place. But you personally would be doing good, as much as any one human can. And you could agitate for abolition and do other things, as well.

Behaving in a sustainable manner is more than a practical choice; it’s a moral and ethical one.