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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I, on the other hand, am willing because it is the right thing to do. My moral conscience isn't dictated by "well everyone else is immoral, so what the heck".
You may or may not believe in climate change. You may or not believe in acting on climate change. What I am saying is, completely outside of that issue, doing what you believe to be good, right and ethical shouldn't consist of looking around and seeing what everyone else is doing and imitating.
If you look at any progress that humanity has made, be it in terms of civil rights, reducing poverty, environmental stewardship... it all starts with a few people saying "this is wrong and I'm going to change my ways DESPITE the fact everyone else is doing nothing about this issue". I can imagine what it must have been like to be a "-lover", outcast from your community for doing the right thing despite knowing your actions were a tiny, minuscule drop in the bucket.
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Good for you
. It's this kind of "Smug" emotive response that politicians need to get a mandate to enact policies that don't make sense or end up in more typical pork-barrelling and corruption. Don't give me this BS that because you vote green/NDP/Liberal that somehow you're part of some special movement towards social justice in the world on the magnitude of the civil rights movement. Heck on a relative worldwide basis just being able to sit at your computer typing this drivel could be considered by some as contributing to create an unacceptably large "Carbon footprint" for yourself.
Also at what point are you considered ethical or not ethical? Replacing Bulbs with CFL bulbs but still driving to work everyday? buying a place close to work and walking everyday, but still buying produce from Mexico? washing your clothes in the river without detergent? Once made a moral issue even having a fire while hermitting oneself in a wooden shack in mountains could be considered an unecessary sin by the most extreme climate change zealots.