I’m getting increasingly tired of people taking these sorts of “Al Gore private jet” pot shots as though there aren’t tons of people advocating and actually practicing veganism, low/no trash lifestyles, etc.
If you don’t think those lifestyle changes will have an effect, then say so. If you think they’re effective but you don’t want to live that way (that’s me) then be honest about it. But simply saying “the climate activists aren’t making any lifestyle changes, so we don’t have to listen to them!” is incorrect, and even worse, boring. We’ve been hearing that same South Park song for over a decade, it’s getting old.
We need to actually engage on this topic and find solutions that will do as much good as possible, mitigate as much harm as possible, and be practical for as many people as possible. It’s going to be a messy combination of practices, policies and technology that get us there. One might go so far as to call it a “Landscape”.
That tone struck me too. I know lots of people who are climate activists, and the vast majority of them are cutting out meat from their diet, getting rid of their cars or at least significantly cutting down their use, reducing water and energy use in their homes, buying organic food where they can, advocating for public transport at the expense of private car use and so on. It come across as a kind of superiority complex - "here's me, the genuis with all the information, and everyone else is a low-functioning idiot".
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I’m getting increasingly tired of people taking these sorts of “Al Gore private jet” pot shots as though there aren’t tons of people advocating and actually practicing veganism, low/no trash lifestyles, etc.
If you don’t think those lifestyle changes will have an effect, then say so. If you think they’re effective but you don’t want to live that way (that’s me) then be honest about it. But simply saying “the climate activists aren’t making any lifestyle changes, so we don’t have to listen to them!” is incorrect, and even worse, boring. We’ve been hearing that same South Park song for over a decade, it’s getting old.
We need to actually engage on this topic and find solutions that will do as much good as possible, mitigate as much harm as possible, and be practical for as many people as possible. It’s going to be a messy combination of practices, policies and technology that get us there. One might go so far as to call it a “Landscape”.
That tone struck me too. I know lots of people who are climate activists, and the vast majority of them are cutting out meat from their diet, getting rid of their cars or at least significantly cutting down their use, reducing water and energy use in their homes, buying organic food where they can, advocating for public transport at the expense of private car use and so on. It come across as a kind of superiority complex - "here's me, the genuis with all the information, and everyone else is a low-functioning idiot".
Also the mutilated word spacing from the full justification made me read the whole thing in the voice of Captain Kirk.