Yes, ordering cheap, disposable shit from Temu is bad for the environment

It doesn’t change the fact that fossil fuel and mining companies are bad for the environment too

Assuming, just for the sake of it, she’d be totally right: I’d still prefer the ideological - yet dumb - zoomer over any boomer that absolutely knows the truth yet decides to fuck it anyway. And then gets quoted in a “magazine” that’s owned by the biggest temu-shopper of all time. But again, it’s little Kevin’s and Jacqueline’s fault with their disgusting tries to save money.

Exactly, we’re supposed to get stuff from big box stores that even have an even bigger shipping carbon footprint, but supports their shareholders.

Not any whataboutism there

Almost like a carbon tax would help realize the costs to the environment that overseas shipping and energy usage causes.

I feel a certain amount of schadenfreude every time I see someone finding out that propaganda doesn’t actually produce real convictions.

Individuals are relentlessly marketed to by targeted ads psychologically designed to get them to purchase disposable, useless slop, but sure let’s just say it’s their fault for falling for it.

… Wouldn’t online shopping be vastly better for the environment? Getting cheap Chinese junk into a market probably has the same climate impact no matter how it was bought, but a single delivery driver going to a few dozen houses is better than a few dozen cars on the road. Although i guess that’s from my experience in a demon country that makes it impossible to go places on foot.