Nope. Climate change is a pollution issue. Reducing consumption can reduce pollution, but paying or not paying for a digital copy of something has effectively zero cost in the form of natural resources or pollution.
I mean sure, but the things people are prone to stealing physically, when they wouldn’t otherwise but for price, tend to be those they must have just to live. That’s not the sort of consumption we can ethically reduce.
Wait, wasn’t the whole point of climate change that we use more resources than the ecosystem can replenish?
Nope. Climate change is a pollution issue. Reducing consumption can reduce pollution, but paying or not paying for a digital copy of something has effectively zero cost in the form of natural resources or pollution.
I’m not saying that the scarcity of digital goods isn’t bullshit, but it’s rarely what keeps people poor.
The comment I responded to was regarding climate change and resource consumption, and piracy’s “impact” on them, so …
I didn’t understand the meme I responded to to be exclusively talking about piracy.
I mean sure, but the things people are prone to stealing physically, when they wouldn’t otherwise but for price, tend to be those they must have just to live. That’s not the sort of consumption we can ethically reduce.