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.
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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.
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The above will be confronting for many people—probably most people. You’re welcome.
Yup, airlines are doing just fine, and it is disproportionately rich people that fly. The same ones that talk about climate change. More than that, we all want our stuff. Larger houses, computers, phones, AC, data centers, etc. We aren't going to give up anything willingly. There are exceptions, but very few.
I have four kids, so I did my part. Yeah, no vacation abroad. I do tend to see folks that say no kids because of climate change as using that as more of an excuse than anything. It all goes back to we want our stuff and kids cut into that.
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.
Yup, airlines are doing just fine, and it is disproportionately rich people that fly. The same ones that talk about climate change. More than that, we all want our stuff. Larger houses, computers, phones, AC, data centers, etc. We aren't going to give up anything willingly. There are exceptions, but very few.
I have four kids, so I did my part. Yeah, no vacation abroad. I do tend to see folks that say no kids because of climate change as using that as more of an excuse than anything. It all goes back to we want our stuff and kids cut into that.
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.
Yup, thanks. I have made the correction.