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Are you responsible for climate change?
@evan I was going to say that I don't think "responsible", and especially individual responsibility, is a productive frame through which to examine this; I think both "yes I am responsible" and "no I am not responsible" lead to unhealthy and unuseful conclusions. But then I thought from another angle which is that while I think it's not useful to ask that question about me, I consider that there is a single class of people (oil execs) who are specifically extremely responsible for it, by deliberately investing in increasing demand for petroleum products, creating the industry, creating dependency, and obfuscating the effects they knew would come about.
So I ended up saying strong no because we know who's responsible, and it's not me
@evan I think asking if individual people are or feel responsible is ceding ground to the concept of individual responsibility for climate change, which was deliberately developed as a concept in order to avoid meaningful challenges to oil