Comment Re:Courage of your convictions. (Score 1) 56
Rather, point out that trying to lean on the hypocrisy to discredit them is logically fallacious.
If a thief tells you not to steal, that doesn't mean they're wrong.
Using a small percentage to make a massive quantity appear insignificant?
Using unscaled absolute numbers to make a value appear significant? That's not only lazy, it's dishonest.
I do not, because most of such claims presuppose that the environment is static and pristine.
You were doing good, here. There is no such thing as a pristine environment.
The reality is that there is a great deal of change without any human involvement and often times what humans do is insignificant.
You flew off the track, here.
Human involvement is fucking huge in this stage of our development.
We upset the carbon cycle by 60-100 times that of all of the volcanoes on Earth, combined. We are quite literally the largest force of nature on this planet outside of the sun.
While I agree with the goal of protecting humanity's habitat, it ought to be viewed as such - our habitat that should be utilized for humanity's needs.
I'm not sure you really do agree with that, though.
If you did, I don't think you'd be belittling our impact.
At least they are installing renewables as fast as they can.
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