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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
Once carbon trading takes off, I think you will be very surprised how much money is in saving the Earth.
As for short term pains vs long term gains. Lets put aside the disagreement whether any action now will have any positive effect in the future, let's just assume it does.
Why exactly should we sacrifice ("endure pain") anything really, for the benefit of complete strangers living 100yrs from now? Excuse me for being ignorant, but I have exactly one life to live. I don't drive a gas guzzling SUV, don't heat my outdoor swimming pool, don't live in Al Gore's eco-super-mansion.
I don't feel I should pay a cent extra in energy cost so some dudes 100 from now can "benefit."
I'm pretty damn sure people 100 ago didn't give two hoots about us living 100 years ago for a good damn reason - they standard of living was NOTHING compared to what we have now, we have no idea what kind of standard of living people will enjoy 100 from now.
Honestly we are like cavemen worried about burning wood in bonfires because it might hurt future civilization much advanced than we are. They will probably laugh at our futile attempts to change climate trends by driving priuses.
TL;DR don't give a two hoots about people who will be born in 100 yrs. tough effin luck.
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One, most people would care about the future generations.
Two, all the rest would at least care about their kids and grandkids. Or if they didn't have any, the progeny of their family and friends.
Three, would be clear psychopaths, which recent studies do say may include as much as 10% of the population. Nothing to be ashamed of I guess, you can only be who you were born to be, but it certainly answers a lot of questions about some of your posts.