| ▲ | dansmith1919 3 hours ago |
| That was my main takeaway as well. How do you do this without any shame? My man is emitting an amount of CO2 on par with an small African country |
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| ▲ | adamtaylor_13 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Most people don't spend a lot of time wistfully considering their CO2 usage, myself included. The religious zeal by which people feel the need to tell me about the ever-warming planet is honestly more off-putting than most actual religions. Of the very few "f*cks" I can give in my life, I prefer to spend mine as I choose rather than being scolded for not giving mine to the pressing issues that others deem important. |
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| ▲ | jug 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | And this is it. This is why we are where we are today. That it is seen as taking a religious zeal to realize how flying very frequently is disastrous for the climate. That's our bar and what we have to work with. Yes, we are properly fucked. | |
| ▲ | nicbou 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The thing is that everyone alive today and in the future is footing the bill for that indifference. It's nice that you don't care, but it's not something I'd brag about. | | |
| ▲ | integralid 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I too don't want to be a martyr hermit who don't travel and consume just to cur my CO2 emissions in half, while someone else generates 10x of that living a full life. That's just dumb, and I consider this whole movement rich people telling poor people that they should be considerate and sacrifice themselves. If you truly care about the planet, don't have children. | | |
| ▲ | nicbou an hour ago | parent [-] | | It's an "all hands on deck" situation, yet everyone seems to think that someone else has to do something. You don't need to be a martyr, just to make an effort. At the very least don't brag about not giving a crap. | | |
| ▲ | spiderice an hour ago | parent [-] | | I don't give a crap, in the most boastful way possible. Sorry if my zealotry isn't your zealotry. | | |
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| ▲ | MarcelOlsz an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is the OP flying a private jet or something? Unless he is, it's a useless metric. The people flying private are responsible for a 1000x a regular persons emissions. It's offensive to suggest regular salaried people are supposed to be "doing something" in this CO2 effort. |
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| ▲ | spiderice an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I would totally do this without any shame if I had the need/desire. CO2 isn't going to be solved by well intentioned individuals making absolutely no impact. It will be a generic solution that solves it for everyone, or it won't be solved at all. I'm also not going to take shorter showers when people are farming in a desert and shipping the crops to China. You might think this makes me a terrible person. That's probably good. Because it will help people understand what we're up against and what needs to happen to actually solve the problem. "Take less flights" isn't the solution. |
