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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)

7. What about grass-roots divestment?

Reply to Jim Lane (Original post)

Fri Aug 14, 2015, 12:02 PM

Aug 2015

As in, consumers stop using fossil fuels for anything, and stop buying products made or shipped using them?

Big Fossil isn't selling the stuff as part of some evil master plan, they're selling it because we want it and what it gives us - material goods, transportation, heating and cooling and some degree of safety. If we stopped buying it, they'd stop selling it. Who's on board for that? (Hint: not me...)