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A lot of people who don't "accept that climate change is happening" actually do when you talk to them and understand where they're coming from. What they often
by jeffreyrogers 5y ago
A lot of people who don't "accept that climate change is happening" actually do when you talk to them and understand where they're coming from. What they often don't like are the proposed solutions to it. Which makes sense when you consider that those proposed solutions often involve completely upending their life.
- mistrial9 5y agousing your brain, don't you think vague, exaggerated and detail-free statements like "completely upending your life" are part of utterly ordinary mental resistance-patterns? In other words, actively defeating consideration of detail and alternatives
- jeffreyrogers 5y agoIf you are a farmer your entire life revolves around planting your crops with heavy machinery[0], fertilizing[1] your crops with heavy machinery, harvesting your crops with heavy machinery, and then transporting your crops to storage/processing by truck, rail, or barge. All of which require massive fossil fuel inputs. So I would say "completely upending their life" is a fair assessment. Edit: Would love to hear your detailed alternatives though. [0]: Requires lots of fuel. [1]: Fertilizer is a produced from natural gas or mined using heavy machinery.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoBut if all of your competition has the exact same impacts, I don’t understand the problem. Unless there is some other way to get food besides farming?
- jeffreyrogers 5y agoThat's sort of my point. Any change on the scale required to affect climate change would require a massive upheaval of the industry so it isn't going to happen anytime soon.