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    So long as we’re pushing for systemic change - we don’t dig ourselves out of this by “just taking personal responsibility” harder.

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        TBF, I can’t argue with that, but when we look at where the issue lays, it’s clear which we should prioritise. Just talking personal responsibility harder also doesn’t do much about the rest of your country, let alone the world.

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            Groups of people and organisations that submit to the power of a government that sets the rules for that group of people.

            Change the rules, change the behaviour for the large group of individuals and the companies doing the lions share of the damage.

            Change your behaviour, change the behaviour of one individual.

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              Sure. Change your own scope that you control, and simultaneously work to change the system. But there is more than one system. Not just government systems. But also mental/social systems, for instance the meme that individual actions don’t amount to much. Imagine if everyone started believing their individual actions mattered.

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                Agreed with the caveat that compared to corporate contributions, individual contribution (within reason) is near irrelevant.

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                  You’re basically saying that human culture doesn’t exist. We can foster a culture around sustainability, just like we have previously fostered a culture around greed and excess. Apathy and trying to minimize nudges towards sustainability only support the status quo.

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                    I’m what now?

                    Go for it - foster a culture of sustainability. That’s not a bad thing, it’s just inadequate.

                    Do you think that’ll deliver the change we need, dramatically shifting the behaviour of corporations and billions of people before we’re out of time, or do you think that pushing those that set the rules of our society to force/motivate the corporations might do a more effective job?

                    You’re talking about fundamentally breaking capitalism, which I’m all for, but to imagine that those holding the wealth, and by extension, the power will be influenced to abandon the profit motive by some flowery language rather than pushing back against you to the greatest extent possible is magical thinking. You need the greater power of the government to force that change on them.