PanVidla t1_jbjq3s7 wrote
Reply to comment by MarmonRzohr in Meet The World's Cleanest Fully Electric Car That Removes Carbon Dioxide From The Air by Anderson069
It's the classic case of "if you buy our pineapple, we'll give 1% of the price towards offsetting the damage to the environment that is caused by transporting it from another continent". Slavoj Žižek calls this a genius capitalist idea - you do nothing to solve the problem, but by spending some money you get to feel good, like you're contributing.
brucebrowde t1_jbk7445 wrote
> by spending some money you get to feel good, like you're contributing.
Similarly how I feel when I eat three times as much as I need to...
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