r/machinesinaction 2d ago

And I can't have plastic straw?

3.5k Upvotes

244 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/Girderland 2d ago edited 2d ago

I signed a petition to make Ecocide a crime a couple of months ago. Wouldn't it be nice if the corporations destroying our planet would have to pay astronomic reparation sums and if the decisionmakers who chose to make life worse for all of us in exchange for profit would face long prison sentences?

That'd be nice. It would also be nice if we would just chill out for a couple of generations, plant hemp and poppies. They say that for the climate to recover, even if we stop all emmissions, would take 200 years.

Stop producing crap. There are already more cars than people on the planet. Make stuff repairable. No need for a new phone every 2 years.

Let's just ride donkeys and plant cabbages and if we are lucky our great-great grandchildren will have pre-industrial climate again and hopefully they will do a better job at not ruining it.

It could be so easy if there was a will.

2

u/ManyThingsLittleTime 2d ago

Do you own a donkey or a car?