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In short, we aren't on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn't mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We're going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren't insurmountable and extinction level.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seem to think that just because someone didn't specifically cite lifetime investment in each platform that it negates their premise.

I disagree.

Stop apologizing for people who have gone far outside the norms, intentionally, simply to pollute more.

Don't confuse it with someone who bought a 2005 honda and are simply getting their useful life out of the vehicle. The US Truck fetish is counterproductive to the needs of actual trucks, and wasteful in resources and disgusting in motivation.

This is conspicuous, intentional overconsumption that not only consumes valuable resources but emits much, much more exhaust products than it should, for the exclusive point of intentionally polluting by reducing combustion. To own the libs, they like to call it.

Is it equal to air carriage or maritime transport? No. No one asserted these things.

But it's more pollution dumped into everyone's atmosphere, more consumption at the pump, all for the purpose of being assholes. Those emissions aren't hypothetical, they're real. Really unnecessary too. A fucking kei truck is more useful than the average american lifted dipshit hauler. Much more efficient too.

But knowing there are people ready to jump in and snipe apocrypha peripherally related to the premise reinforces my doubts that humanity will get it's shit together before we're doomed (if not already). Have a good one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not apologizing for anyone, I’m suggesting that we would be better served by focusing our efforts on major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions instead of getting personally butthurt over a globally tiny number of individuals who are contributing an extra fraction of a percent of global emissions relative to their peers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, read you loud and clear, there's no reason to stop the chuds because it's only a tiny fraction - and this why we can't have nice things, like an ecosystem.

see sport, the tiny percentages add up over time. acting like it's not a consequence is merely shitting even more on the next generation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You must be one of those goofballs who thinks millennials can’t by houses because they keep buying coffee.

See sport, enormous percentages add up way faster than tiny ones. Pissing your pants over how bad your feelings are hurt when you see a scary bad man in a truck while you are eating meat 10 meals a week and driving your Corolla to and from work instead of biking is just shitting even more on the current, and every future, generation.

Sad how many people put their personal feelings ahead of objective data, and hold back meaningful progress in the process.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pointless waste is the most egregious. Nothing would be more pointless than wasting more time on you and you incorrect, but I suspect, personal projections. I'm a cyclist. I eat mostly fish and veg. I don't drive a car unless it's going out of town, and it gets decent mileage. Thanks for over-sharing, it's like you strive to be wrong and sadly ridiculous with each new reply.

Gonna help you with that problem and block you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Please, for the love of God, block me. It seems like that’s what it is going to take to get you to stop obsessing over this wild pissing contest that you’ve manufactured.