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Notice this response isn’t “that’s wrong and here’s why” it’s “someone else also said this”.

Even if it were true that I was repeating BP taking points, that’s not a good reason to discount it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy

To help drive the point home, how many widgets will a company make if no one is buying them anymore?

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What’s more realistic to change? A few dozen companies or billions of people?

Obviously it is easier to change the companies. That is why fossil fuel companies pay marketing companies to shift the responsibility onto billions of people. Because they know it will never succeed.

So whether you are a fossil fuel shill or not, you are doing the work of a fossil fuel shill.

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What’s more realistic to change? A few dozen companies or billions of people?

My comment was meant to encourage the readers of the thread to make a change. So I think I’ll switch around your question.

What’s more realistic to change? YOUR own consumption habits or corporations?

What’s ironic is your argument is perfect for discouraging individuals from making changes in their own lives which would improve climate change. Who is the shill?

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1 persons individual change is not enough to matter. For individual carbon footprint changes to matter you need 100% participation across the planet to fix a small part of the problem.

To make systemic change you need the majority of voters. So around 25% participation to fix 100% of the problem.

I provided my source showing BP hired a marketing firm to get the public to focus on their individual carbon footprint.

So to answer your question of who the shill is: I’d say the person repeating the fossil fuel talking points.

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