Quoting because I don't think I can get to them and the rest of the conversation is important. Saying "WE are consuming the oil" is technically correct as no other species on Earth has figured out how to do it, but this observation and four quarters gives you a full dollar.
Ultimately people use what is affordable for them, including availability and cost. Using alternatives to fossil fuels is currently more expensive, whether in research, time or straight up money. There are several reasons for this, subsidies and marketing playing no small part, but boiling this question down to personal responsibility is either ignorant of the larger picture or incredibly privileged as in "if I could do it, anybody else can easily do it".
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•- Profit from extraction/consumption.
- Still rake in government subsidies that deem fossil fuels strategic resources.
- Conducted then buried research into climate change more than 50 years ago.
- Run greenwashing marketing campaigns while applying for more drilling permits.
- Shaped the car-first city design at least in the US, which leaves few to no alternatives for the people born or living there.
- Came up with the very concept of personal environmental responsibility you're blindingly repeating.
- Finance political candidates pushing for more extraction/consumption.
I'm glad to hear that you pedal to work, take the train to visit your relatives and installed solar panels to heat your house but it simply isn't affordable for everybody everywhere, is that so hard a reality to grasp?
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•We see this also, all the time. It's either propaganda or inadvertent self-promotional ignorance.
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•Greenhouse gas emissions are about 90% of what is contributing to Global Warming.
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