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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This is silly. No one needs anyone to feel guilty. Do you feel guilty when you make any change? It's not about guilt. Reality is still reality. We all have emissions we're responsible for, and should therefore do something. I don't have a vote in China so I can't affect those emissions. Doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything about ours.
If I didn't pay taxes it wouldn't change the government's balance sheet.
If I don't vote, the outcome doesn't change
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I think the dissonance comes from the way the argument is framed by climate change activists. The idea that if we reduce our carbon footprint, we can avoid this futuristic scenario of the oceans boiling and everybody getting cooked.
When you look at the graph above for example, and with some knowledge of the per capita energy usage of people in those high population countries, it looks fairly obvious that the ocean boiling future will not be avoided. So why bother turning your heat down and being uncomfortable when the inevitable approaches at the same rate either way?