Meg O’Neill tells energy industry conference that individual consumers’ role in driving emissions is ‘missing’ in conversations about fossil fuels
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/27/woodside-boss-meg-oneill-young-people-fossil-fuels-temu-comments
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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.
If a useless middleman isn’t profiting, have you really done commerce? What is this, communism?
And buy the stuff that they order directly from the same stores Temu sends from but with markup.
Not any whataboutism there
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Almost like a carbon tax would help realize the costs to the environment that overseas shipping and energy usage causes.
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.
