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I think the point that the GP is making is that while you may indeed have bought a hybrid, objectively the population at large have not made that same switch, a
by theptip 8y ago
I think the point that the GP is making is that while you may indeed have bought a hybrid, objectively the population at large have not made that same switch, and if only you (and people like you) make the switch it has approximately no effect on the problem.
Sure, it's obviously better if people choose the hybrid over the guzzler, but if you're trying to do something to avoid catastrophic climate change, I think spending time persuading people not to buy the guzzler is not worth the opportunity cost. (By which I mean, at the margin, any time spent persuading people not to buy a gas guzzler would be better spent persuading people to support a carbon tax of some sort).
- ianai 8y agoAnd the outlook of political action on climate change is at best questionable.
- anigbrowl 8y agoThat's why old political approaches should be abandoned in favor of more dramatic ones. I'm so done being nice to 'skeptics' and ideological moderates, their intellectually lazy accessories.
- jfnixon 8y agoInteresting. I'm done with lazy 'intellectuals' who think they can offer questionable evidence and demand everyone accept it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What is the natural climate variability and what is the standard deviation thereof? What is the climate sensitivity and how accurately do we know this value? Why do the simulations predict warming that doesn't show up in observation? What happened to "more frequent, stronger hurricanes?" Here's an idea! If you have better answers for skeptics, which is your responsibility, maybe more people would agree with your claims.
- tzs 8y ago> What happened to "more frequent, stronger hurricanes?" https://www.theguardian.com/weather/ng-interactive/2018/sep/11/atlantic-hurricanes-are-storms-getting-worse https://www.theguardian.com/weather/ng-interactive/2018/sep/...
- anigbrowl 8y agohttp://wondermark.com/1k62/ http://wondermark.com/1k62/ If you have better answers for skeptics, which is your responsibility No it isn't. Climate change 'skeptics' have such a long record of bad-faith participation that I no longer consider them worthy of response.
- ianai 8y agoAgree. Third parties see arguments and assume both sides have credibility in their own right.