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gregvp's avatar

Re: Rebecca Evans and her ilk, I'll reiterate a comment I made yesterday.

On belief in climate change:-

It does not matter whether a person says they “believe in climate change”, or not. They do not care about it. If they cared, they would never get in an airplane again.

Air travel is especially bad in terms of emissions because the emissions are emitted up high in the atmosphere, and stay there longer as a result. And because one long-distance plane trip can cause as much pollution as the rest of the year’s activities.

No one is prepared to give up air travel. No one cares, or to put it another way, no one believes enough for it to change their actions.

Forgoing having children does not make you a climate saviour. It is not virtuous. The problem is, “how do we leave a liveable world to our descendants?”. To solve that, we must have descendants.

Childlessness is running away from the problem, not solving it. Going childless because children would mean fewer vacations abroad is particularly egregious.

The above will be confronting for many people—probably most people. You’re welcome.

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Looks like autocorrect got you. I'm always having to catch this as well, so I'm sensitive to it.

"In 2023, which state had more firms move in then out? "

Should be "move in THAN out". "than" to compare, "then" to indicate time.

Then: moved in, moved out later

Than: this vs. that.

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