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Suppose I want to fight climate change, and I decide to make a documentary to raise awareness. The logistics of making a documentary is certainly going to resul
by NickM 9y ago
Suppose I want to fight climate change, and I decide to make a documentary to raise awareness. The logistics of making a documentary is certainly going to result in some amount of additional carbon emissions being produced. I might be called a hypocrite for creating all these CO2 emissions to make a movie that tells people to emit less CO2.
But does that mean it was wrong of me to create this documentary? Not necessarily. If people watch my film and take action to reduce worldwide emissions, it's likely to cancel out the carbon cost of making the film in the first place.
- danaris 9y agoI think that there has been a rise in America lately (and possibly the West in general) in the notion that in order to not be a hypocrite—in order to be taken seriously in any position—you must be ideologically pure. You can't, for instance, advocate for environmentalism if you have a nonzero carbon footprint, or advocate for the poor if you don't live a life of simple humility. This is absurd in any practical sense, but it's being used to dismiss all kinds of people's arguments simply because they have to actually live in the real world, rather than some ideological fantasy land.