Tradition should survive even if it requires modern marketing.

Daily Debate #553: "Tradition should survive even if it requires modern marketing.". You are arguing AGAINST the motion. Your opponent: Christopher Hitchens.

individual actions vs government policies which has greater impact on protecting the enviornment

Government policies dwarf individual actions—a factory dumping toxins erases what a thousand recyclers accomplish. Why fixate on personal virtue when the top 100 companies cause 71% of emissions? Your shopping bag means nothing without regulation.

You're using that 71% number to dodge responsibility. Those companies only exist because millions of people buy their products. Stop demanding the government force others to change while you wait for permission. Individual demand shifts markets faster than any regulation crawls through Congress.

You've got it backwards. That 71% includes emissions from *producing* what people buy, not consumer choice—you didn't choose to fund it, the system forced you into it. Regulation banned CFCs and saved the ozone layer in years. Individual virtue signaling took decades and accomplished nothing. Waiting for millions to voluntarily sacrifice while corporations laugh is the real dodge.