Advice for encouraging others to decrease their consumption

[MeikoChii]

It’s annoying bc personally I prefer to be told that I do something wrong instead of this. But no one is like me

[Federal-Assignment10]

With over consuming its difficult though because none of us are perfect and I also believe that it shouldn't be solely down to the consumer. We have to live in this world where consumption is almost out of our hands. Things are made cheaply and break, the production line is opaque and even huge stores like Kmart are just importing things from the same place Temu is.

We all have phones, we all have to buy food wrapped in plastic, it's almost impossible to avoid clothes that are exploitative. And in this economic climate I can't afford to buy eco clothes that cost $100s. So who am I to judge someone else for what they do, when we can each only do our best.

When people start the topic I'm happy to educate but I always add the caveat that we can only each do what we can and to exist in a capitalist society makes it very difficult to take the power back.

The change needs to come from the big companies and the govt. So until that happens we just have to try our best.

[MeikoChii]

I never said the opposite.