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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
To make zamler’s comment seem downright, as he put it, “stupid,” she caught a ride on a carbon-free sailing boat powered by wind and solar. Yeah, it had a backup generator. But it generated all of its own energy for the trip, and it took her two weeks to cross the ocean.
She didn’t fly, which would’ve taken hours. She didn’t take an ocean liner, which would’ve taken days. But according to zamler, two weeks on a zero emissions sailboat? Not sacrificing enough! So convenient!
It’s hard to take these types of meaningless criticisms, suggesting that crossing the Atlantic by sailboat is somehow not forgoing any convenience, from the types of people that probably complain when the Skip the Dishes driver is a little slow with their McDonalds.
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I think the point is that not everyone can or practically can just launch across the ocean with a crew on a super lightweight carbon free yacht paid for by rich celebrities.
I know you and others keep saying and pretending that the argument that climate alarmists are massive hypocrites is not a good one, but nobody is yet to properly explain why.
When somebody is telling somebody else how to live their life, but is unwilling to make the changes in their own life, that is fundamentally the problem. Now where you’re going to go is that the climate alarmism is actually a bell to awaken people to researching and fixing the future, to which I’d say fantastic. I agree. Everybody agrees. Literally nobody I don’t think anywhere is advocating for not doing R&D into new technologies. Thus I fail to see the point in climate “justice” marches embracing carbon intensive hypocrisy to yell at others when things are already in motion as best they can? I am at a loss to see what they are trying to achieve. If only they truly considered their own footprint.
It’s not like this is a brand new problem that has snuck up on everybody. It’s that economics drive behaviour and the economics aren’t there right now. That doesn’t make everybody but 16 year olds bad people.