<aside> 🗓️ I had first shared this on May 7, 2021

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<aside> 👂 Most of this comes from How to Save a Planet's "Is Your Carbon Footprint BS?"

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After I shared My Why, those in the room also shared theirs. To my surprise, the conversation ended with a frustrated critique on the debate on: "whose responsibility is it to solve climate, the individual or the system?"

I offered an answer to this, and I stand resolutely behind this. But before we go on, I want to remark at how amazing it was to hear from voices all over the world that coalesced to this same sentient.

Perspectives all over the world

With people dialing in from all over the world, from Zurich 🇨🇭 to Seoul 🇰🇷 and many cities in between, we all voiced our relationship with Climate Change:

We want to make a dent in the universe
We recognise this is the ‘challenge of the generation’ ...
... but am still figuring out how and where to spend time and energy to act
Many are feeling internal dissonance between this important and urgent issue but our day-to-day actions may not reflect this. We feel problematic about it.
We think that large companies need to be the ones that are leading and stepping in the right direction - and we touched on lighter-packaging, sustainably-produced goods. Talked about how the buck seemingly has been passed on to the consumer.
We think an individual's buying power also matters, companies would only produce whatever we buy so we should signal what we want to buy.
We also recognise that a lot of the practices of business and society, are beyond the scope of control or influence of a consumer.
We are annoyed by the current debate where actions are pushed to the consumer and the virtual signalling and greenwashing.
We think change must be at governmental-level.

Whose responsibility?

Is it the individuals or the collective? Answer:

Both AND we need a better frame.

I hate to answer questions with ‘both’ or ‘it depends’ but the framing of this debate question is a false dichotomy. It erroneously limit our option.