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Heating your home "ruins" the world. You probably wont die at 40*F inside your home, but it sure would suck living that type winter. So does cooling it during

Heating your home "ruins" the world. You probably wont die at 40*F inside your home, but it sure would suck living that type winter. So does cooling it during the summer, so do many other modern amenities, etc... At some point it begs the question: Is the world you are preserving worth living? Sure, there are billions of people that don't have any of these amenities in life, but it is mostly by necessity and they can't afford any better... So, is travel necessary? No. Is traveling something you should feel guilty about, probably not.

eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Is the world you are preserving worth living? Future generations would like to exist. Perhaps in people year 5000 will put 2019 in the same bucket with the dark ages.
- beat 7y ago
  The last human being will eat the last cockroach. Pollution and climate change are not an existential crisis for humanity. We're just not that powerful (yet). Humans have survived, and thrived, in far worse conditions than we are experiencing today, or that climate change is likely to cause, and it was done without the benefits of modern technology. (Really, conditions are better now because of modern technology.)