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I guess we're going to do this every year now. Like last year: if the politicians gathered at this conference agree and do anything - literally anything at all

I guess we're going to do this every year now. Like last year: if the politicians gathered at this conference agree and do anything - literally anything at all - to combat climate change that they wouldn't have done otherwise, the effect of their plane flights will be dwarfed by whatever thing, no matter how tiny, they agreed to do. "Leaders working on world hunger problem ate lunch, exacerbating problem" "Leaders working on global clean water drank three pitchers of water" "President says we need to reduce CO2 emissions, but attended Boy Scout Jamboree where marshmallows were toasted" All of this is "I am very intelligent" territory. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha

SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
Let me know when leaders working on global hunger ban GMOs then set crops on fire. Because that's the closer example to 1500 private jets flying to around to meet about climate change.
FireBeyond 8y ago
> agree and do anything - literally anything at all - to combat climate change In many cases, they really don't. Or they agree to worse things in "exchange" for positive things. That's the irony.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago
> "Leaders working on world hunger problem ate lunch, exacerbating problem" > "Leaders working on global clean water drank three pitchers of water" In both of those scenarios, the goal is to make it possible so everybody can do those things. The leaders working on world hunger, want everybody to be able to eat lunch like them. The leaders working on global clean water want everybody to be able to drink 3 pitchers of water without having to worry if they will get sick. The leaders at the climate conference are discussing policies that would encourage/mandate that fewer people took plan trips, and that private jets were more expensive to fly.
- mikeash 8y ago
  The end goal for fighting climate change is to have everything running on renewable energy so that we can all enjoy plane trips without screwing up the planet.
handedness 8y ago
Aren't ill-fitting analogies the original "I am very intelligent"?

SlowRobotAhead 8y ago

Let me know when leaders working on global hunger ban GMOs then set crops on fire. Because that's the closer example to 1500 private jets flying to around to meet about climate change.

FireBeyond 8y ago

> agree and do anything - literally anything at all - to combat climate change In many cases, they really don't. Or they agree to worse things in "exchange" for positive things. That's the irony.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y ago

> "Leaders working on world hunger problem ate lunch, exacerbating problem" > "Leaders working on global clean water drank three pitchers of water" In both of those scenarios, the goal is to make it possible so everybody can do those things. The leaders working on world hunger, want everybody to be able to eat lunch like them. The leaders working on global clean water want everybody to be able to drink 3 pitchers of water without having to worry if they will get sick. The leaders at the climate conference are discussing policies that would encourage/mandate that fewer people took plan trips, and that private jets were more expensive to fly.

mikeash 8y ago
The end goal for fighting climate change is to have everything running on renewable energy so that we can all enjoy plane trips without screwing up the planet.

handedness 8y ago

Aren't ill-fitting analogies the original "I am very intelligent"?