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Sorry, it doesn't work like this. The reason politicians are not prioritizing those things is because currently the effects from the climate change are not affe

Sorry, it doesn't work like this. The reason politicians are not prioritizing those things is because currently the effects from the climate change are not affecting profits. It's cheaper to do lip service and lip service they do. At some point as things get worse, some actual solutions like biodiesel will start paying off and governments will start adopting it. All you can do by your personal martyrship is delay this point by historically negligible time. But this is not fair to yourself. It's like you have a drunkard neighbor. You know once he runs out of money, he'll sober up, take it seriously, find a job and start rebuilding his life But instead of letting him do it, you sell your own house and keep buy him more booze! Sure, he will be thankful, but it won't solve the problem. You are just fooling yourself by doing the simplest thing that appears to give your life a meaning, but on the grand scale you are just wasting your own life away. SUVs are nice, you can fit multiple kids and hiking gear into them, tow your own speedboat and go to multi-day roadtrips along the coast. So what, I am supposed to give that lifestyle up, reduce my life to eating bad-tasting food in front of a TV so the politicians, who are agreeably bad at their job could take more flights with their private jets? I don't think it's fair. I mean, the politicians would love you do do that, but that's just not fair to yourself.

class4behavior 4y ago
>Sorry, it doesn't work like this. Except that personal choices are what affects the market which drives change despite stagnant government decision making.
- matrix_overload 4y ago
  Nope, not really. Not so long ago horse manure on the streets was a real problem. Do we remember those who decided to sit at home and never travel? Nope, we remember Henry Ford for making automobiles a mass product. Similar with bubonic plague vs. hygiene. Similar with bacterial illnesses vs. penicillin. Every single example of a positive societal change benefited the person behind it. Martyrship, on the other hand, is the cornerstone of religious cults and third-world countries. A stable system where everyone suffers in the name of abstract greater good, while the handful of elites reaps the profits. Don't go that way, it sucks.
  - class4behavior 4y ago
    >Do we remember those who decided to sit at home and never travel? That's a problem with your education in history, not the reality of past progress or markets. Not to mention that your response has barely any relevance to the point I made.

class4behavior 4y ago

>Sorry, it doesn't work like this. Except that personal choices are what affects the market which drives change despite stagnant government decision making.

matrix_overload 4y ago
Nope, not really. Not so long ago horse manure on the streets was a real problem. Do we remember those who decided to sit at home and never travel? Nope, we remember Henry Ford for making automobiles a mass product. Similar with bubonic plague vs. hygiene. Similar with bacterial illnesses vs. penicillin. Every single example of a positive societal change benefited the person behind it. Martyrship, on the other hand, is the cornerstone of religious cults and third-world countries. A stable system where everyone suffers in the name of abstract greater good, while the handful of elites reaps the profits. Don't go that way, it sucks.
- class4behavior 4y ago
  >Do we remember those who decided to sit at home and never travel? That's a problem with your education in history, not the reality of past progress or markets. Not to mention that your response has barely any relevance to the point I made.