We are told by large firms that if only we choose to be virtuous consumers we can save the world. They claim if we recycle, what we painstakingly wash and sort won’t be burned or dumped.

That’s a lie, of course, but when they are caught out, they claim it was mere “puffery”, despite the hours and guilt we burn on it.

We cannot buy our way to a better world, or even build one by refraining from buying. We must use govt to build and insist upon one.

see @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2023/02/26/car