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I think you illustrate my point well: people are bought into the climate change talk, but when it comes to actions, they do what they really believe in.

• cthalupa 7y ago
  Many of us are bought in to actions that don’t include the death of millions of people.
  • dchyrdvh 7y ago
    Actions like switching to paper straws?
    • yetihehe 7y ago
      Yeah, people don't want to be inconvenienced. "Yeah, I've driven several miles today with my gas gurgling vehicle to see some nice view and destress a little, I would do it in electric car, but it's too expensive to buy, I'd rather do some small damage to environment". Avoiding small inconceniences multiplied by millions of people is what gives us the situation we have now. People want change but don't want to change. I see I am part of this problem too, but the big problem is that I'm only a very small part of a problem. If only I change, I make my life worse for negligible benefit of others. How to change this? I still have no idea, but I believe this is THE source of our problems with environment. Every other problem loops back to tragedy of commons.
  • dchyrdvh 7y ago
    Air pollution isn't good for health: cancer, heart diseases are the leading causes of death. The virus kills a few, mostly old and sick and mostly males, but saves many, as people can finally see how clear air looks. So yeah, restarting the dirty economy machine is what going to kill millions, not the virus.