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Why your 'Carbon Footprint' Is A Lie | Climate Town

Climate Town · 668.6K views · 2020-08-12 · 9:54

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Climate Town argues that the personal carbon footprint idea shifts blame to individuals and traces it to oil company marketing, urging collective and political action.

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Cited in discussions of carbon footprints and corporate greenwashing, for the claim that the concept came from BP marketing.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2022–2026

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Maarten88 · 2026-03 · Recommendation

You know the carbon footprint concept was literally created by BP marketing, to place the blame for climate change on society, and distract from all the evil stuff they did to promote more fossil fuel consumption and sabotage climate science. The Climate Town channel on Youtube has lots of video's on this, such as this one: [VIDEO]

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mptest · 2023-08 · Reference

>Given all those rhetorical shaming of individuals to consume less, it's illuminating to actually look at the data and see what's the actual the effect even if you could literally force (instead of shaming) everyone to live that lifestyle. Yeah, almost like the entire notion of a "carbon footprint" was a piece of propaganda produced by a literal oil company[0] to move the blame of polluting the planet from the corporations that knowingly did it, to earnest and empathetic individuals like the original person I replied to, causing them to abstain from vacation (and more) for negligible benefit while the corporations continue to pollute with impunity. [0] [VIDEO]

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baxuz · 2022-07 · Reference

Carbon footprints are a scam: [VIDEO] Carbon offsets are a scam: [LINK] Hearing people talk about these give me the same vibes as techbros talking about stocks and crypto.

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