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by yqx 1956 days ago
They carry incomparable levels of responsibility
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please elaborate.

I see lots of hate for oil companies, but not a lot for those who choose to fly a lot or drive gigantic cars. The F150 is America's best selling vehicle, passenger trains are basically unusable in North America, suburbia makes public transport impossible.

We live in a consumerist society where virtually every product we own or use contains plastic or has been shipped from the other side of the world, but we lay blame on those who extract the oil.

How convenient.

Yes, wasting oil and causing excess emissions is unethical at the consumer level too. But let's not descend into whatabouism.