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  • And still some see the US constitution as this pinnacle of democracy when it’s vastly outdated by now

    Even the founding fathers anticipated a lot of reforms and for the whole thing to become obsolete quite soon but yet here we are with people worshipping them as this infallible being and weighting their words on a scale as if it’s impossible for them to be wrong







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    9 months ago

    One of the biggest fake-meat producers in Germany was a very big, purely meat-production company 20 years ago

    Now they make more money with replacements than with their meat-production just because people kept buying it.

    If enough people vote with their money it totally has an effect



  • Also: politicians will only implement hard measures if a big part of the population is already undoubtedly behind them.

    They won’t severely limit meat unless a big part is already vegetarian - they won’t ban short range flights unless most people are choosing trains and busses over them already.

    They won’t take away space from cars to bikes unless people are already taking their bike and showing the problem to everyone

    Sure the whole thing about personal responsibility and the co2 footprint is intended to discourage change - but unless we start a grassroots movement including personal responsibility change won’t happen, too