Two problems: 1. You're actively shifting responsibility to consumers for their consumptive habits instead of government and industry which are the root of the issue as they engage in environmentally destructive practices to produce wasteful and inefficient products, and in turn, encourage consumptive lifestyles in order to support their endless drive for profits. 2. You in no way account for color blindness, which affects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women.
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DevOps Engineer. Formerly Unstoppable Domains, NYLON Magazine, Repair the World, & JTA News. Built the sukkah at Occupy Wall Street.
Re the individual action argument - government regulating industry is a huge piece - in addition to that, can you think of any scenarios, products, or behaviors that you think it might be unlikely for the government to heavily regulate swiftly, or…
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