This is utterly untrue (and reprehensible). It assumes we fail at decarbonizing our economies within our children’s lifetimes. In reality, someone in the UK today emits half the emissions in a year that their grandparents did. In the US we emit about a third less than our parents did.
This is utterly untrue (and reprehensible). It assumes we fail at decarbonizing our economies within our children’s lifetimes. In reality, someone in the UK today emits half the emissions in a year that their grandparents did. In the US we emit about a third less than our parents did.
And this will continue to fall in the coming decades as we switch away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy. The misanthropic idea that our children are doomed to fuel future warming assumes that we fundamentally fail to mitigate climate change.
@hausfath Steel and cement and glass is now made in China 🇨🇳 and India 🇮🇳 and we learned that governments are now better cheaters
Also he seems to be missing the point. We’re not actually “damaging the planet” by making it warmer. The planet will be just fine. We may trigger a mass extinction but those have happened several times in the past and will happen again in the future— with or without us. The point is that we are making the planet inhospitable for humans. Solving an existential threat to humans by getting rid of humans seems counterproductive
@hausfath It's an absurd hypothetical that deserves zero consideration. If Elon Musk donated just half his net worth to the UN we'd obliterate world hunger. If my auntie had testicles she's be my uncle. We could go on all night. Best not to even engage with such disingenuous timewasters
@hausfath It seems like the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is gaining members again..
@hausfath Reprehensible indeed,
@hausfath The article on medium reads like a generic rant. No factual content.
@hausfath Eliot did not make the claim, just the dude that Eliot was pointing to. Ya, of course, it is a dude, the medium writer, trying to justify his non green lifestyle. That is the way I interpreted it.