However, in those cases you can switch to another provider and get essentially the same thing. Not so with software, which is much more variable. I rather would want to be able to _keep_ the software I like as long as I like. Perhaps the person you're responding to sees this in a similar way.

Don't forget the experts themselves have to be skeptical, too (as that's how science works: science without skepticism is not science, it's pseudo-science.).

You say "nope" to people being attacked/bombed/killed for it then you advocate "all global warming and card-carrying Greenpeace members should be placed on a boat immediately above the device if this is going to happen." I suspect that's not entirely serious, but it makes your second statement a little iffy. It sounds like you'd like at least imagining that happening, so I'm not sure how firm you are on the idea that nobody should be attacked/bombed/killed for this.

"Well, I have planted over 500,000 trees. I own a managed forest that used to be scrub-land. Well I didn't physically plant them, I paid 175 people to do it for me. What have YOU done apart from re-cycle your tin cans? Stop being a hypocrite and start using your brain. It doesn't matter HOW MUCH we "conserve" if we don't stop breeding like rabbits, the J curve is going to happen. But in the mean-time I have a lot of hardwood to sell to humanity." So if you don't have the ABILITY to do anything less than that, then you can't complain or you're a "hypocrite" and a "douchebag"? Not many have that ability, so what the holy do you expect them to be able to do? There's only one thing I can think of: not have so many kids (i.e. don't have any more than 2 kids). According to you, this would be the biggest thing, since it attacks the overpopulation problem which causes or at least hugely magnifies all the other problems. Yet even if I do that (currently I have zero kids), if I complain about ecologic problems I'm still a douche, right, since I am not ABLE to do what you did?! Is that fair?! I think if one is _able_ to do something but doesn't, and then complains, that is a problem, but if you are NOT ABLE, then you should still be able to complain as that's all you can do, and the more the word gets around the more those people who DO have the ability to do something will be pressured to WAKE UP and go do something.