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Sorry to play the man and not the ball, and please don't take this as as personal ad-hominem, but what you are doing is rationalised catastrophising [1] Your f
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Sorry to play the man and not the ball, and please don't take this as
as personal ad-hominem, but what you are doing is rationalised
catastrophising [1]
Your fallacy is: Because all things are X and some X are bad, all X
are equally bad.
Your game is: Whatever you think of as a humane activity, I can find a
reason why it's destroying the planet so you may as well not bother -
just continue destroying the planet as you are.
Fact is, everything you do will kill you. Every step you take wears
out your body. Every bite of food and breath of oxygen takes you
further down the road to death.
What will you do, stay in bed frozen in fear?
There are a billion things to do in life that have less environmental
impact than flying around the world to go a jet-ski racing and tyre
burning party. Reading a good book [2] :) on a beach would hurt less.
respects
[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/catastrophizing https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/catastrophizing
[2] https://digitalvegan.net https://digitalvegan.net
- ux-app 5y ago>Whatever you think of as a humane activity, I can find a reason why it's destroying the planet so you may as well not bother - just continue destroying the planet as you are yes that's correct, there is nothing you can personally do that will make a measurable difference to making the planet a better place. You're wasting your time. Even collective action is probably doomed. There are just too many humans on the planet. In 1500, the world population was 460million. That is probably a level that the planet can indefinitely sustain. We're at 8billion now and we're fatally addicted to fossil fuels. Buying local and taking a bus to work are not going to save the planet.