I know climate change is "real" but I don't really care. What does that make me?

besides a jerk wrote:

Obvi wrote:

It is often the case that a large problem requiring cooperation from multiple parties does not have a complete solution initially, but rather, that helpful steps are made by some of the parties involved and a more complete solution evolves out of a sequence of partial solutions.

That kind of thinking is for suckers. I'm not going to "do my part" if there's a guarantee that 1) others will do their part, and 2) it will actually benefit me.

Anyone who posts things like "that kind of thinking is for suckers" is not worth my time.

So, to answer your original question, your position on these matters makes you irrelevant.

Obvi wrote:

besides a jerk wrote:

That kind of thinking is for suckers. I'm not going to "do my part" if there's a guarantee that 1) others will do their part, and 2) it will actually benefit me.

Anyone who posts things like "that kind of thinking is for suckers" is not worth my time.

So, to answer your original question, your position on these matters makes you irrelevant.

I don't care to be "relevant" to whatever it is you're trying to sell people.

An old, irrelevant individual who lived an insignificant life and will likely die soon

besides a jerk wrote:

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A complete and total EDGE LORD!

Congrats!

I bet you smoke cigarettes too.

It's hilarious that you need attention for this.

enlighten me wrote:

Yes the earth goes through cycles. But this is one that we are bringing on ourselves.

Right, so the weather is constantly going through cycles for millions of years, but this is different.

Obvi wrote:

besides a jerk wrote:

That kind of thinking is for suckers. I'm not going to "do my part" if there's a guarantee that 1) others will do their part, and 2) it will actually benefit me.

Anyone who posts things like "that kind of thinking is for suckers" is not worth my time.

So, to answer your original question, your position on these matters makes you irrelevant.

Gosh you are dumb. Most people this ignorant at least have some self awareness about it. Not you, apparently.

That's how everyone else is wrote:

Normal

+1

thanks! wrote:

chicken little is crying wolf wrote:

Rational.

There have been so many false alarms about climate over the past 50 years, some skepticism is warranted. If it's real, which I believe it is, it's overstated and most public outcry is overreaction.

But I'm old. I've been told so many times that I'd be frozen, boiled, under water, or dead from starvation and pollution by now, but yet here I am.

If you're young, feel free to panic or to pat yourself on the back for caring more than we old people do.

Thanks for fucking up the planet before you die.

You're like the old guy that takes a dump in the pool and then looks at the floating turd and says "I don't see the big deal. Why y'all getting out of the pool. It's just one turd. Doesn't bother me that much."

From Caddy Shack: It's no big deal, it's a Baby Ruth!

Skipping school will change everything?

OR:

1.4 BILLION Chinese don't give a damn.

It really doesn't matter if you believe climate change is human caused our not. Both so called deniers and hypocrital liberals are one in the same if they don't offer up a solution.

Just do your part, be conscious, clean up, shut off your phone and make the world a better place.

As usual, the letsrun cognoscente provide further evidence of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Here's a cartoon that will illustrate the climate time scale for the mouth breathers:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

If you know the climate is deteriorating and you don't care, that just means you are a republican trump supporter.I

Obviously.

CousinPookie wrote:

Skipping school will change everything?

OR:

1.4 BILLION Chinese don't give a damn.

About 15 years ago, I spoke nationally as a futurist on changes that would occur as baby boomers reached age 65. In the Q&A afterwards, someone would always ask about climate change. My reply was this...

Climate is a complex system with lots of unknown variables. It's extremely difficult to forecast what will happen over the next 10 years, much less 100 years into the future. I will say this. If global warming is happening and if CO2 is the primary cause, then there is nothing we can do about it. If CO2 emissions from transportation and electricity production in the US dropped to zero tomorrow, that decline would be offset by increases from China and India in less than four years.

I was wrong.

It took about 12 years... but my point is still valid.

China is paying lip service to reduce CO2 while simultaneously planning to build over 50 coal-fired power plants in the next few years.

Individual steps to reduce CO2 emissions are virtue signaling. National steps to reduce CO2 emissions are about politics, money, and power.

If the crisis were real, the UN Climate Action Summit this weekend would be lambasting China. Let's see if that happens... ha!

I am increasingly in the same boat. I care about climate change less and less every day because the issue and rational responses and solutions to the problem have been replaced with social justice. The left has turned climate change into an issue that is more about lbgqt activism, gender equality, racial equality, ect rather than the issue at hand. If you advocate a solution that the left does not find acceptable you are morally judged as a non believer, a racist, or some other bad word. If the left actually did care about climate change they would be advocating for mass construction of nuclear power plants ... but that is not the issue here.

Duh . wrote:

enlighten me wrote:

Yes the earth goes through cycles. But this is one that we are bringing on ourselves.

Right, so the weather is constantly going through cycles for millions of years, but this is different.

The Earth's weather changes. Therefore it is impossible that human activity is having a significant impact on the planet's climate.

woke wrote:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-has-run-its-course-1528152876?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwAR107lsD42Z2GcGB-cv3aacbZFEt6jQp32O9zkL3lk6XYxOvupWSTM_VqL8

I am increasingly in the same boat. I care about climate change less and less every day because the issue and rational responses and solutions to the problem have been replaced with social justice. The left has turned climate change into an issue that is more about lbgqt activism, gender equality, racial equality, ect rather than the issue at hand. If you advocate a solution that the left does not find acceptable you are morally judged as a non believer, a racist, or some other bad word. If the left actually did care about climate change they would be advocating for mass construction of nuclear power plants ... but that is not the issue here.

Yeah, makes total sense. There are many people who are annoying and/or ignorant. Therefore I will not concern myself with dealing with a very large and important issue.

Good job!

Yes, you were wrong then. And you are wrong now.

1) China's one child policy has had a greater positive impact on reducing global emissions than all steps taken together that the US has put forth.

2) The US had CO2 emissions of 15.0 metric tons per person in 2016. China had CO2 emissions of 6.4 metric tons per person in 2016. Who exactly, is paying lip service to reducing CO2 emissions?

Jezuz H. Kryst wrote:

As usual, the letsrun cognoscente provide further evidence of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Here's a cartoon that will illustrate the climate time scale for the mouth breathers:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Some people prefer facts to cartoons: