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All of which amounts to sticking one’s fingers in one’s ears and saying don’t try to change me followed by a bunch of of neeeneer neeners. I kid, but I guess t

All of which amounts to sticking one’s fingers in one’s ears and saying don’t try to change me followed by a bunch of of neeeneer neeners. I kid, but I guess that is what’s at the root of it. A fear of change and wanting to believe it isn’t so, because then there’s no need for change. The whole attitude is foreign to me, because I believe in following the evidence wherever it takes me, no matter how frightening I find it. It would be easier if I could believe the comforting lie sometimes.

TechBro8615 3y ago
I think you'll find that much of what you interpret as resistance to "climate change" is not so much resistance to the idea that it exists, or even that we should "do something" about it, but rather to the current approach where "doing something" involves grossly hypocritical billionaires and politicians distributing money to each other while lecturing everyone else on how to live and what they must sacrifice. There are yearly conferences where hundreds of private jets emit more Co2 into the world than the average person will in their lifetime. And the people attending these conferences step off their jet, drive in a motorcade of SUVs to the venue, and sign documents committing to disburse billions of taxpayer dollars to LLCs and corporations their friends will form before next year's conference when they'll do it all over again. They'll lament about the epidemic of science denialism afflicting the common folk, and then they'll get back on their jets and fly back to one of their multiple homes to continue hoarding and growing their obscene wealth. When you dismiss criticism of the status quo as "science denialism" or whatever perjorative is en vogue amongst your fellow saviors of "our democracy," you are serving the agenda of the biggest polluters on the planet, by looking the other way while they facilitate global corruption and forego any legitimate mitigation of the impending catastrophe you care so virtuously about preventing to stave off the existential threat so many of your fellow non-billionaires are too ignorant and science-denying to recognize.
- hotpotamus 3y ago
  That billionaires are corrupt or hypocritical is certainly an indictment of those billionaires (and perhaps all billionaires; I'm open to the idea that that sort of wealth is inherently immoral), but I do not believe that it changes what I should do or what needs to be done globally to combat climate change.
- antonvs 3y ago
  Don't use what billionaires do as an excuse not to act.

TechBro8615 3y ago

I think you'll find that much of what you interpret as resistance to "climate change" is not so much resistance to the idea that it exists, or even that we should "do something" about it, but rather to the current approach where "doing something" involves grossly hypocritical billionaires and politicians distributing money to each other while lecturing everyone else on how to live and what they must sacrifice. There are yearly conferences where hundreds of private jets emit more Co2 into the world than the average person will in their lifetime. And the people attending these conferences step off their jet, drive in a motorcade of SUVs to the venue, and sign documents committing to disburse billions of taxpayer dollars to LLCs and corporations their friends will form before next year's conference when they'll do it all over again. They'll lament about the epidemic of science denialism afflicting the common folk, and then they'll get back on their jets and fly back to one of their multiple homes to continue hoarding and growing their obscene wealth. When you dismiss criticism of the status quo as "science denialism" or whatever perjorative is en vogue amongst your fellow saviors of "our democracy," you are serving the agenda of the biggest polluters on the planet, by looking the other way while they facilitate global corruption and forego any legitimate mitigation of the impending catastrophe you care so virtuously about preventing to stave off the existential threat so many of your fellow non-billionaires are too ignorant and science-denying to recognize.

hotpotamus 3y ago
That billionaires are corrupt or hypocritical is certainly an indictment of those billionaires (and perhaps all billionaires; I'm open to the idea that that sort of wealth is inherently immoral), but I do not believe that it changes what I should do or what needs to be done globally to combat climate change.
antonvs 3y ago
Don't use what billionaires do as an excuse not to act.