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All true. The comments so far are quite entertaining in explaining how it's not in fact the case; one even says that people should be able to avoid taxes while
by bambax 6y ago
All true. The comments so far are quite entertaining in explaining how it's not in fact the case; one even says that people should be able to avoid taxes while hoping to pay more taxes in a distant future.
But climate change advocates are not the only ones to blame. Absolutely nobody wants to change their behavior: no individual, no company, no country.
And so climate change is simply unavoidable. Trying to mitigate it is a waste of time IMHO; finding ways to live with it may be more fruitful.
- jeffreyrogers 6y agoThe comments are revealing. People are having an emotional reaction that's preventing them from realizing any real way of addressing climate change will substantially change/reduce their living standards. I've had this conversation with people in real life and almost no one gets it at first.
- ls65536 6y agoThere really does seem to be this pervasive idea that there's a non-stop linear march of progress from the beginning of time, that despite some bumps here and there "things always improve over time", and that for any of the big problems humanity is facing that "they'll think of something", without much thought as to who "they" are or what that "something" is, or even about the additional side-effects of what that "something" might entail, which could go on to cause ever greater problems later on (where the same argument is again applied ad infinitum). This seems like a common argument made to avoid the emotionally difficult thoughts about what an individual could do right now to help prevent or even just to mitigate existing problems from becoming worse.