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I've noticed this "I care less than you" attitude and style of """debate""" since I shared a flat in college. Except it was about doing the dishes and vacuuming
by uoaei 3y ago
I've noticed this "I care less than you" attitude and style of """debate""" since I shared a flat in college. Except it was about doing the dishes and vacuuming the carpet then. And most of them grew out of that mindset by now.
It's not a more rational stance to deflect things like concerns, and especially not to act so flippant in the face of such grand risks.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoGiven that I'm an environmental studies major and an American who has lived without a car for well over a decade, I doubt that I care less than you. I'm pretty seriously invested in literally walking the walk here. So odds are high there's a misunderstanding here somewhere.
- uoaei 3y agoThe rhetoric you use is indistinguishable to me from the "we have so many other things to worry about, and anyway we'll be fine because techno-utopianism blah blah blah" crowd. I don't think being concerned and doing stuff to help are mutually exclusive, but your reaction seems to frame them as such.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI haven't said anything like that, so I don't know why you are having a problem.
- jraph 3y agoI had the same initial reaction while reading your first message, so I understand the problems people are having with it; they most probably think you are downplaying the climate change issue. But now that you clarified your stance, it's clear you weren't doing such a thing and I fully appreciate your first message too now. It was well written, another phrasing would have been too bad. It's just that here on HN it totally could have been written by some technophile not caring about climate change, or even a climate sceptic / denier, and personally, I'm fed up with this. You were right about there being a misunderstanding. Everyone involved in this discussion should read it again with a calm mind.