Comment Re:Options (Score 1) 101
Those problems you listed do affect you or people you care about.
I assure you they don't.
Those other problems affect the economy. You are a part of the economy, so those problems do affect you.
Impoverished people are a small part of the economy. Sure, if their world was greatly improved, that would be a great economic "rising tide" that would be some help. But if their lot isn't improved, it won't change my world noticeably.
Instead of "if that were my attitude, then I wouldn't bother", it's more like that "if those problems you listed didn't affect you, you wouldn't be mentioning them"
I see you're saying below "Because if you look like a duck...". So how come you gloss over this? Those problems don't affect me or mine despite your lazy assertions to the contrary. They merely affect a lot of people in the world unrelated to me in any way. Yet I still care. Connect the dots sometime.
I admit that the proposed mitigation solutions for global warming would affect my world substantially and adversely. I do have an interest in such. My view on "climate change" is simply that it's a pretext for creating powerful bureaucracies and control of society. Advocates have cycled through a variety of flimsy arguments and evidence while simultaneously endorsing expensive and poorly thought out actions.
If you're advocating action that is a tremendous sacrifice for society, then you should have more going for it than some weak climate models which haven't been tested against solid climate data (that is, date like the solid satellite data we've been
collecting for a meager thirty years) and various fallacies and biases (such as Pascal's wager - can't afford not to act, observation bias - unusual weather becomes "extreme weather" caused by global warming, argument from authority - the IPCC does this a lot, and argument from consensus - the infamous "97%" survey).
As I demonstrated, the issues you listed aren't only about the future. They do have short term affects. When it comes to global warming, which has no short term effects, you have consistently refused to care (more). That's why people concluded (rationally I might add) that you are not what you claim to be
You may have demonstrated this, but you haven't demonstrated that global warming has long term effects that we need to act on whether now or later. I also believe at some point you need to let future generations have some responsibility for their own well-being. I think it's ridiculous to advocate all this sacrifice now just so that future generations might have slightly better climates.