grey like your soul wrote:
Apathetic, selfish, and unwilling to face the reality that all actions have consequences?
Actually I do understand that actions have consequences, I just don't care about those supposed consequences enough to change my actions. It's a simple cost-benefit equation.
grey like your soul wrote:
Apathetic, selfish, and unwilling to face the reality that all actions have consequences?
Says the guy who thinks "liking" something on twitter or Instagram has: 1) achieved something, 2) makes him selfless, and 3) has now faced reality.
But luckily it's a fake issue so none of it matters anyhow.
internet doctor wrote:
besides a jerk wrote:
Virtually everyone is selfish so I can live with that.
selfish ≠ self-interested
They're effectively the same thing.
besides a jerk wrote:
internet doctor wrote:
selfish ≠ self-interested
They're effectively the same thing.
Not to economists, psychiatric/psychology professionals, or people that realize that similar sounding words don’t have the same definition.
David S wrote:
Republican?
internet doctor wrote:
besides a jerk wrote:
They're effectively the same thing.
Not to economists, psychiatric/psychology professionals, or people that realize that similar sounding words don’t have the same definition.
They showed up as synonyms in the thesaurus, so forgive me for not understanding your point.
At least you are aware. You say you don't care but
if you get skin cancer, have your house burn down due to a forest fire,
get flooded, then you'll be even more aware.
Then maybe you'll start a post that says 'Hey, I'm the jerk who's now extremely aware!!'
lol
Greg wrote:
At least you are aware. You say you don't care but
if you get skin cancer, have your house burn down due to a forest fire,
get flooded, then you'll be even more aware.
Then maybe you'll start a post that says 'Hey, I'm the jerk who's now extremely aware!!'
lol
OMG!!!! We're gonna die!!!
The end of the world is here!!
Greg wrote:
At least you are aware. You say you don't care but
if you get skin cancer, have your house burn down due to a forest fire,
get flooded, then you'll be even more aware.
Then maybe you'll start a post that says 'Hey, I'm the jerk who's now extremely aware!!'
lol
I wear sunscreen to avoid skin cancer, rather than wait on the rest of the world to fix the weather.
But hey I'm selfish like that.
lol
A Sinner.
I think it would be poetic justice if climate change ushered in the collapse of the print free money financial system & we entered a dark age.
Those are the two sins humanity commits with abandon.
We will rant and rail about race and me2. But as a humanity, we do worse to the environment. Moreover, whoever heard of two generations not paying for what they buy.
Yeah sure, you can change rules of accounting for every predictable happenstance. But theres one you cannot avoid, Mother Nature taking her revenge.
Greg wrote:
At least you are aware. You say you don't care but
if you get skin cancer, have your house burn down due to a forest fire,
get flooded, then you'll be even more aware.
Then maybe you'll start a post that says 'Hey, I'm the jerk who's now extremely aware!!'
lol
Skin cancer, homes burning down from forest fires, and floods have been happening forever.
Now we can see them instantly with the internet so people draw false conclusions and say that they are worse now. Everything happening in 2019 is not as extreme as other periods during Earth's 4.5 billion year life. The weather has been colder, the weather has been hotter, there have been longer droughts, there have been more floods, there have been global forest fires, and so on. Everything you can point to you can find a period in time (in most cases many periods in time) where it was worse at a previous point in Earth's life. Even CO2 levels have been far worse than they are today.
So the question is, what was causing that CO2 during those periods? Because in 2019, the belief is humans cause high levels of CO2. Obviously there are other factors we ignore.
We can try our best to stop climate change but I can guarantee you we will fail. Whatever Earth has in store for us will happen. At the moment we are in a warm period of the Earth's 5th ice age. So, you can bet your life it will get significantly warmer and then colder over the next few thousand years.
Things I'm more concerned about now.
Extreme hot summers / cold winters;
More rain / more drought --- flooding destroying house;
High winds - blowing out windows / property damage / injuries;
Fires - big concern about house burning down, though I live in a moderately sized coastal city;
Food shortages;
Water shortages - rationing and/or the city turning off the water supply;
People getting more crazy due to changes, crazy driving, fights, home invasions, people looking for food.
So far things have been okay and/or fine around here, but based on all the things happening elsewhere, I'm concerned.
besides a jerk wrote:
I wear sunscreen to avoid skin cancer, rather than wait on the rest of the world to fix the weather.
But hey I'm selfish like that. lol
Sunscreens contain many toxic substances and are a major cause of skin cancers.
I've started giving carbon offsets as gifts. It's pretty easy, they look like gift cards. 3lbs of carbon offsets can be purchased for $15. You should see how disappointed people are when they get them. Not as bad as donations to the human fund ("money for people") but almost as bad.
Self-interested people perpetuate their own existence efficiently and productively while still having regard for the needs, wants, feelings, etc. of others.
Selfish people have no such regard
mcvred wrote:
Self-interested people perpetuate their own existence efficiently and productively while still having regard for the needs, wants, feelings, etc. of others.
Selfish people have no such regard
Selfish people think liking something on Instagram makes them selfless with a deep regard for the wellbeing of others.
Madame de Pompadour.
Also, a complete tool of the capitalist system. Those who are profiting from greenhouse gas emissions are very happy when people are kept atomized and alienated from their fellow man. They know that as long as people do not care about each other, they can do as they please and let everyone else suffer the consequences. So, when people flea Central America because their subsistence farms are failing due to climate change, the capitalists love it when you look at your fellow man and think they are "invaders". But the moment you see your fellow man as your brother, the capitalist loses all his power.
A normal, honest person. The vast majority of the people that are "concerned" with climate change don't actually do anything about it beyond virtue signaling online.
besides a jerk wrote:
Greg wrote:
At least you are aware. You say you don't care but
if you get skin cancer, have your house burn down due to a forest fire,
get flooded, then you'll be even more aware.
Then maybe you'll start a post that says 'Hey, I'm the jerk who's now extremely aware!!'
lol
I wear sunscreen to avoid skin cancer, rather than wait on the rest of the world to fix the weather.
But hey I'm selfish like that.
lol
We’re not all going to die in our lifetimes, but a lot of people who live near the ocean, midwest, or west coast will have their lives altered by increasingly erratic extreme weather and because you’re not overtly accountable or haven’t experienced it personally or seen someone in your social sphere experience it, that’s probably why you don’t care.
And since our parents’ and grandparents’ didn’t care about how our lives and world turned out, I guess you might have sense of justification in not giving a crap about the next generation or two, even if you have kids.
I still think this view is wrong, but I have the capability of understanding where it comes from.
Climate disasters wrote:
Things I'm more concerned about now.
Extreme hot summers / cold winters;
More rain / more drought --- flooding destroying house;
High winds - blowing out windows / property damage / injuries;
Fires - big concern about house burning down, though I live in a moderately sized coastal city;
Food shortages;
Water shortages - rationing and/or the city turning off the water supply;
People getting more crazy due to changes, crazy driving, fights, home invasions, people looking for food.
So far things have been okay and/or fine around here, but based on all the things happening elsewhere, I'm concerned.
The above is exactly the issue. The only thing anyone concerned can do is mitigate any of the above by doing what they can, but it would take EVERYONE ON EARTH doing everything possible to even slow this down a small percentage at this point. We are screwed, in other words, and history will not shine favorably upon us. We, and everyone before us following the industrial revolution, are collectively the ones who were 'so blind,' in other words.
And also, if you have grandkids, tell them to apologize to their kids for conflicts that will make wars over oil or religion look like elementary school recess by comparison.
Opiods, guns, Muslims, Brown Men are nothing compared to what is right around the corner.