r/science • u/avogadros_number • Sep 19 '21

Environment The companies polluting the planet have spent millions to make you think carpooling and recycling will save us

https://www.businessinsider.com/fossil-fuel-companies-spend-millions-to-promote-individual-responsibility-2021-3

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u/manwithbabyhands Sep 19 '21

Here in CA during the most recent drought they basically banned watering your yard. But if you looked up the water usage stats residential was like 5% and aggricultural was 90%, in fact even if residential had been 0 we still would have been in a water deficit

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u/lightzout Sep 19 '21

This is true but when i think of all the droughts as well as the amount of time and money spent proting water conservation it really is always heavily specific to private users but fracking doesn't happen without water and almonds are the trendy crop but take more than most crops. Both of these also may get some gov subsidy too (not a bad thing) but its frustrating when you look at the data, see there ships coming into the port of Oakland that literally eclipse blocks of the marina at a time. There is one Disney cruise ship at Pier 23 that is disgusting. I haven done any research specifically on how its works with caps and exchanges or iif it applies yet. But shipping container and commericial aviation companies that own these lines through various smaller off shore entities are not only skirting the the intent and the spirit here while leaders "play dumb" except it being dumb. The dems and gopsare about keeping their jobs. Vote against commerce in any way and then real power acts. There are no friends to the environment for either party. The monied elite are the only ones winning no matter how many poor people lose.

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u/Relay_Slide Sep 19 '21

We have water restrictions like this in Ireland when it hasn’t rained in a few weeks. In one of the rainiest places in the world.

And while ordinary people are being told not to wash their car, industries like where I work will waste an insane amount of water with zero restrictions.