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This is why I think we needed legislation to curb excesses.

• renewiltord 3y ago
  You mean on the Swiss? They produce 1,670,000x as much CO2 as me every year, so there's not much point in me eliminating my 20 or so CO2 tonnes. It's a drop in the ocean compared to Switzerland. I could even go 5x up and it won't matter.
  • tonyedgecombe 3y ago
    I suppose your argument has a couple of things going for it. First you don’t need to change your own behaviour. Second you get to blame someone else for the problems you have created. You will find it painful though, when you are inevitably forced to change.
    • renewiltord 3y ago
      That's the key thing. If some group has more emissions than me I can always just blame them first even if I'm contributing to the problem. The objective isn't solving the problem. The objective is to allow me to maximize my share of the pie by using rhetoric to claim that some arbitrary group of people are equivalent to others. So I live guilt-free so long as Switzerland emits what it does. Once Switzerland and I have emitted the total equal amount of CO2, we can consider ourselves equally liable.