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I find your comment to be at the absolute peak of sanctimony. Who are you to decide if it is necessary or not? Furthermore, why are you justified in negatively
by kriops 3y ago
I find your comment to be at the absolute peak of sanctimony. Who are you to decide if it is necessary or not? Furthermore, why are you justified in negatively stereotyping Americans – a diverse group of individuals?
- snerbles 3y agoThe satisfaction from serving up self-righteous condemnation is one hell of a drug.
- Gibbon1 3y agoGiving attitude from 50 degrees north latitude.
- rimliu 3y agoThe question was not addressed to me, but I have some tongue-in-cheek answers: > Who are you to decide if it is necessary or not? Inhabitant of the Earth. The one affected by climate change. > Why are you justified in negatively stereotyping Americans Tell me, what is the best-selling truck in US for 46 years in a row?
- refurb 3y agoIt’s hilarious how sanctimonious moralizing has gone from things like pornography, premarital sex and smoking marijuana to now using too much energy. The people who complained about those issues thought they were “on the right side” as well. But in the end it’s all just busybodies trying to force other to live their life the way they think it should be lived.
- rb666 3y agoHow is it an act? Caring about the climate is clearly morally superior than not doing so.
- drexlspivey 3y agoThe "using electricity is bad" meme must be one of the stupidest ones in the last few years
- maleldil 3y agoWhy? IMO we should all avoid waste, whether that's plastic or energy.
- drexlspivey 3y agoThen you must hate that almost all of sun's energy hitting earth is wasted
- maleldil 3y agoThis is such a bad faith comment. The sun isn't causing climate change; we are. Do you disagree that humans need to minimise waste in order to fight climate change?
- drexlspivey 3y agoUsing energy doesn't cause climate change. Producing energy from fossil fuels causes climate change. Humans don't need to minimise energy usage to fight climate change, instead they need to produce energy from non fossil sources. I wish we produced 10x energy that we do now but from renewable sources.
- globular-toast 3y agoYou're right, in the most meaningless sense of the word. I too wish we had 10x the energy from renewable sources, but we don't and won't for the foreseeable future. What we actually can do is get maybe 1/10 of our energy from renewable sources and then, to be sustainable, we need to use 1/10 of the energy we currently use.
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- checkyoursudo 3y agoThat particular comment was "the absolute peak of sanctimony"? Like, the most sanctimonious comment you have ever read on the internet?
- kriops 3y agoYes. This is a prime example of what people refer to when they say that someone is being an "asshole". The reason being that the OP is being incredibly condescending while simultaneously lacking any trace of empathy and knowledge. I've seen stuff that or more vile etc. of course, but as far as sanctimoniousness goes, this is the worst I've seen in my several decades on the internet.
- snoman 3y agoProbably more like a local maxima.
- Toutouxc 3y agoA diverse group of individuals who consume 12 MWh of power per capita, while it's around 6 or 7 MWh for modern European countries. It's not even a stereotype, just statistics. (got my data in two minutes from Wikipedia, so maybe not up-to-date)
- ryan-c 3y agoI wonder how much of the difference is air conditioning?
- Karrot_Kream 3y agoI don't really think 2x the power usage comes from AC. The US has plenty of areas that only need a bit of AC for only part of the year.
- ryan-c 3y agoIt's definitely not all of the difference, but it's gotta be some.
- midasuni 3y agoPresumably those areas don’t need heating
- ryan-c 3y agoThat would be an incorrect assumption.
- quantumfissure 3y agoPlease don't make assumptions on something you don't know anything about. Even many northern US states (around the same Latitude as Madrid, north), on average, are 30-35+ every day during the summer and 0C to -10C in the winter. Many Canadians have air con. So yes, heating and air con is a requirement in many areas. I live in a northern state, and we regularly have full weeks that are 38-40C.