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by mschuster91 2133 days ago
> This kind of comment asking for it to be banned is always from an extremely uninformed person.

Shifting the responsibility for solving a problem from the government towards individual consumers so that corporations can keep making money is a tried, extremely dirty and old PR strategy, originating at least with BP: https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...

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The PR strategy works because people believe in personal agency.