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Your inference that rich people using private planes means climate change is overblown is a non-sequitur. If your doctor was obese and told you that you should
by tasty_freeze 4y ago
Your inference that rich people using private planes means climate change is overblown is a non-sequitur. If your doctor was obese and told you that you should lose weight and exercise more, does that mean that their advice is wrong?
In my own life I know I consume way too much sugar. No doubt it is bad for my health, yet I do it. Does that have any bearing on the notion that consuming 1000+ calories a day of refined sugar is bad for me?
Secondly, you are creating a strawman argument. Show me the scientist who is saying what we need to do is to panic? What they are saying is we need to take corrective actions ASAP. Those two things aren't remotely the same.
Third, you make claims about people's motivations being tied to lacking spiritual grounding. That seems like a testable claim: I would bet there are tens of millions of self-described religious people who believe in AGW and that it is an urgent problem. In my own, US-centric experience, the main correlating factor is political identity, not religious identity.
- rglover 4y ago> Your inference that rich people using private planes means climate change is overblown is a non-sequitur. Not "rich people," people who are going to climate conferences whose primary purpose is to figure out how to lower carbon emissions and meet C02 goals. It's a perfectly logical conclusion. > Secondly, you are creating a strawman argument. Show me the scientist who is saying what we need to do is to panic? Scientists do not (precisely how I know the fervor is a lie), but there's plenty of "crisis" and "red alert" language which lead to people panicking (see: idiots blocking traffic or gluing their hands to art) [1]. > Third, you make claims about people's motivations being tied to lacking spiritual grounding. Yes. [1] https://phys.org/news/2022-04-page-red-climate.html https://phys.org/news/2022-04-page-red-climate.html
- tasty_freeze 4y agoI read the linked article. There is nothing, zero, nada about religion or spirituality or whatever you want to call it. Did you paste the wrong link?