(07-09-2023, 03:35 PM)dken31 Wrote:(07-09-2023, 01:01 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: There is one thing I really like about Climate Change. Simply put, anything we do about it is a step in the right direction. Even if it turns out to be the most fantastic fiction of all time any steps we have taken to offset it, mitigate it, or slow it down will be good for the planet.
What an ridiculously naive and untrue statement. Your statement would be true if the steps being taken came at no cost, however the costs, aka allocation of resources, are immense.
If we allocate significant resources (or slow down/prevent the creation or development of resources) towards "fighting" climate change, that takes away from what we can allocate to food/clothing/housing/education/healthcare etc.
A really simplistic example of the ridiculousness of your claim: if we ban all farming, that would halt production of all the greenhouse gasses currently produced by farming...and most of us would starve to death. Any step we take that makes production more costly or time-consuming adds to the cost of feeding and caring for people.
If it turns out to be the most fantastic fiction of all time, the cost to health and wellbeing has immeasurably exceeded any benefit.
Interesting, is the reason you don't care much about the world your great grand children may inherit that you're already in your own fantasy world where all the trees and leaves are green and the nice young men in their clean . . . ?
Having the best plot in the cemetery is not going to be quite as desirable if there's no one left to use your lovely $$ to build your mausoleum.
Once upon a time there were two passengers who found themselves outside the plane and falling at an increasing speed. One remarked as they passed through 7,000 feet at about 220 KMH, " This isn't so bad as people said it would be, we're already well over half way so no need to worry. Somebody will sort out our luggage and send it on." Not to sure if they all lived happily ever after . . . Incidentally - The cost of repacking a parachute is rather awesome, but the cost of not opening it is not always the best option, as the parachute you saved might just not be saved after all. still, you have saved some dollars I guess.
Have a great day, don't worry, be happy.

Entropy is not what
it used to be.