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Best way to protect the environment is to increase wealth to expand the event horizon of individuals.

Claiming to care about X, when that is a currently-trending performative virtue, is very similar to claiming that you love dressing in a certain sort of clothing, which just happens to be the latest fashion.

Except clothes cost money, and claiming to care does not.

hbomberguy’s “Woke Brands” video is pretty good on how corporations use these things that people care about and disagree about to sell more product and obscure their true behaviour.

Doesn't appear to be working. Go woke, go broke.

No one individual can bear the burden of trying to address all social issues. I think it's good to live according to one's political and moral beliefs, but ultimately there is a point to where this is reasonable to expect of someone.

That is to say that I think one can criticize the tech industry and its e-waste production, while also using a modern smartphone, for example.