Sustainability Shoppers Doubt Green Claims
Consumers question the authenticity of 'eco-friendly' products, from bedding to deodorant brands. Skepticism is driven by greenwashing, lack of transparency, and perceived hypocrisy (e.g., AI-generated ads for 'planet-friendly' brands).
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“not a saint by any stretch, I just very badly want to see change for the positive in our communities and world. The state of things right now really gets me down and doing this is the only way I avoid feeling helpless about it all.”
the scary part is when they stop asking if its real and just accept it lol
“Warning: May turn any simple purchase, minor inconvenience, price increase, or passing curiosity into a 47-tab forensic investigation ending with a spreadsheet, a strongly held policy position, and a grudge against at least one corporation.”
I do whatever I can to stay away from anything Koch industries
“https://preview.redd.it/60zljzvf4imh1.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=3838d73ff8da5de1597b0822ba982f968cddbb1d submitted by /u/Trust_A_Tree [link] [comments]”
“I was reading about this after your initial comment. Thank you for enlightening without attacking or belittling! They suck”
“"50% decrease in your distress or youroney back" I'd see that nonsense and run a mile. How on earth do you quantify distress 🤦🏻 I'd think this was clearly snake oil.”
You don't see people lambasting YouTube for its carbon footprint
“Fair enough, worth putting it through the ringer rather than taking my word for it. And yes, please do - I'd be interested to see what you're extending it into.”
“Skin care, so its a bit difficult, and prefer to be made in the US, maybe Korea but I dont know how that works”
“If people cared about fabric chemistry they would not buy 5 dollar masks in first place. The ones who want real silk already know the difference, so your fight is with influencers who promote the plastic junk, not with the customers.”
“https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/s/I7hAcdAkif submitted by /u/Still-Improvement-32 [link] [comments]”
“They couldn’t have worded this better? submitted by /u/jakspedicey [link] [comments]”
“I thought it was all a lie. I thought I corrected my spreader. I was wrong 🤷♂️ submitted by /u/BagswithBalls [link] [comments]”
“Okay great. We’re out of time. Fine, we get it. But the problem with this article, and many other similar articles, is it seems like it’s just designed to scare the shit out of us.No call to action, no recommendations in what to do about it. It’s basically insinuating that we, the regular people, are the responsible.As there in-lies the problem, and it makes me furious. The onus to engineer our way out of a climate catastrophe is not on the regular people. The onus is on the people who engineere”
“They are the most reliable channel I have yet to find. The Art they show on their Thumbnails can make it look a little clickbait-y though.”
“If we were told that planet earth would explode 30 years from now, you could choose to worry and be miserable for all those years, or not. You’ll die in the explosion either way.”
“There is a lot of money being spent right now to continue the reinforcment of existing infrastructures that have already excessive consumption. Far more so than AI to a point that even in the worse case scenario for AI, they already use today more water than AI will in 2030. If you try to tell me that i should prioritize water consumption of AI instead of those, i will respectfully disagree. Because, yeah, we realised too late about them. That's right. But we continued to. We are still conti”
“Solar power from Mercury is really stupid. I’m surprised it didn’t say something like geothermal or harnessing waves.”
Same thing that happens everywhere in nature. Adapt or die
“I am SHOCKED! Shocked, shocked, shocked I tell you. A Microsoft subsidiary would want to sell you something and might do something bogus to do it? Say it ain't so.”
“At root, it's driven by consumer-trash NPD, i.e. everyone's addicted to endlessly shopping but is also so crippled by perfectionism that they can never make decisions.”
Solving climate change with this is way beyond bold choice of words