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Yes, that’s exactly what I’m suggesting. If people aren’t willing to suffer today, then everyone is going to suffer immensely from climate change over the comi
by paulcole 5y ago
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m suggesting.
If people aren’t willing to suffer today, then everyone is going to suffer immensely from climate change over the coming generations.
The fact that everybody wants change but nobody is willing to change shows me that climate change is an absolute lost cause.
- whakim 5y agoThat's a totally false choice. No one has to suffer for more (and more affordable) housing and more (and more convenient) mass transit - except perhaps the "winners" of the current system. It's also quite an entitled position you're espousing: just because you have the economic wherewithal to live in cities and forgo driving, doesn't mean that many people (and their families) who work in those same cities do.
- paulcole 5y agoYes, I am quite privileged. Anybody who’s privileged (most people reading HN fit into this category) and isn’t thinking about the sacrifices they can make today for the good of the future needs to take a good hard look in the mirror. But like I said, humanity is fucked. The next 200-250 years are going to be unimaginably awful for the descendants of people alive today who can’t imagine their lives being unimaginably awful. Drive if you want. Live in a big house. Do whatever. It clearly doesn’t matter at this point.