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General / Off-Topic Hilarious counter to youth bemoaning the elder generations re climate change
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Do not worry, since all this time, most of the Cmdrs know Jason's wacky posts, which are to take second degree.
Your current energy/resource consumption is all someone else's fault, check. This has to be one of my favorite aspects of the whole climate crisis discussion
In the SUV, without a doubt ?
The impression of invulnerability pushed to its paroxysm...
I rarely drive in an SUV, despite owning several. Generally speaking I'm in a one ton Chevy diesel 4WD pulling some kind of work trailer.
Wait, you can buy one of those?
I am convinced that you are much less concerned about child labour in poor countries that allow you to overconsumption, than by the hell of Greta manipulated by adults.
Yes I have already been confronted with this kind of brutal and expeditious reactions.
You may or may not be correct, but I am curious as to how you would arrive at such a conclusion? Are children building my trucks and SUV's and supplying my various building materials which I use in my business to improve people's homes and make them more weather resistant and energy efficient?I am convinced that you are much less concerned about child labour in poor countries that allow you to overconsumption, than by the hell of Greta manipulated by adults.
That's a deep irony in the conversation where I'm habitually and repeatedly attacked on the pollution/climate issue: my business actually works directly with modifying new and existing homes to make them more "green." I'm willing to bet in this thread that I'm the ONLY person who directly impacts the issue under discussion in any kind of positive, tangible way outside of the constant bickering, arguing and virtue signalling that people such as you mistake for "doing something."
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If it's for the work, you're half forgiven.
However this is not a reason to drive without pants.
I think indeed that many components are undertreated.
And do not limit yourself to your means of locomotion but think of all that you consume.
Lolol. You disagree with me, so therefore I'm a monster who can't possibly contribute in a meaningful way to society. Your wrong across the board, here, picco. And yes, I do look at Greta as any mature, rational adult would: she's just a poor dumb kid, pretty much like all kids tend to be. The difference is, not all kids are being prostituted by their parents and gleefully used to grease the political climate crisis machine by all the other adults surrounding her and shouting rah rah rah from the Internet sidelines.
We go forwards from here, not backwards. The current populations are the sum total of human ingenuity and one of them, somewhere, is about to discover something we probably already know that hasn't been able to break through the established market resistance. Cui bono? Who gains by funding this narrative?
We see evidence of staggering advances in many technologies, but not steam turbines?
Ten minutes.That is evil, just evil and I like it.
She won't last ten days.
That said: Be careful, she may turn all of this against you. She 'will' be talking to her mates about all of this and they will be giving her ideas, to play the game, to her advantage.
Plus: I would be that she is using things like WiFi etc., eating the things she wants, away from home and around her mates houses etc.. So you will need to catch her out and then do some shaming yourself. Teach her, that you can't cheat the planet.
"Her sailing across the Atlantic is another straw-man. If she had flown they they would have attacked that even if, as one article suggested, she had taken a standby seat. I've not seen any actual calculation of the carbon footprint of her voyage other than complaining that some crew-members had to fly. Sure the boat had to be made but so did the airplane. Her meals were probably packaged in plastic, but they all are."
Or: She could have used the internet, to broadcast her message? However: Her trip was arranged, by her father and was just another publicity stunt. Including a few internet broadcasts, during the trip.
The energy consumption roughly follows the size of the population, but one very overlooked new consumption is IT which is rapidly growing. It's not completely following Moore's Law, due to technology becoming more energy efficient, but it's growing exponentially with a doubling time shorter than anything else. If we were to continue that we would be spending what amounts to the current global energy consumption only on IT in ~30 years. No worries. That's not going to happen.
I thought you knew that
Oh look, there's one! A sum total of human ingenuity fighting the market!
Thanks for putting your money where your mouth is to take us forwards.
I think that I may have accidentally gained the high ground here.
I have never owned a car, due to not being able to gain a driving licence, due to medical issues.
I have been planting trees, for close to 4 decades. Not for any green reasons, what so ever. I just wished to leave a make, on the places, I have lived. Just to look up and say, I planted that. but there are now, 100s of trees, cleaning CO2 and making Oxygen.
My heating is turned right down. Simply because I am poor.
About the only thing, I can say that I have been, conscientiously doing for decades, is re-cycling.
You needed a /s with that, really?I thought you knew that
Yup being poor is very good at having a low impact on the environment!
It's all the rich sods fault!!
However this is not a reason to drive without pants.
Pants!? I think you mean genital oppression devices! #freethewillie
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