I am 9 years vegetarian, haven't air traveled in over a year, and drink only oat milk. I have a 40 year old steel bike for grocery store runs that are close and short. I am starting up a vegetable farm in my home to reduce need for shipped foods, which will get it's water from rain collection (in in the PNW). I don't commute to work, 100% remote.
No, it’s not. It sounds like you still air traveled in the last decade. Your emissions are likely higher than someone who has never air traveled and drives a truck around their local town.
Where does your electricity come from? Ecosystem destroying dams or fossil fuels? The PNW is pretty bad when it comes to energy and I would much prefer you move to the desert where you can live on solar or vote to put in some nuclear. Both of those would be vastly better for the earth than your plan for a vegetable farm.
moving the goalposts is so pathetic. not that GPs inane point that you ostensibly clarified wasn't obvious.. my point is I am doing my best with what I believe.
those truck buyers could start literally anywhere, but I doubt they are. same goes for the tuning company.
there is clearly a grey line. and this truck is clearly way past it.
But that’s all that you’ve done. You’ve just moved them somewhere that’s convenience for you.
That’s what I’m demonstrating here. If you don’t pick something objective like CO2 emissions and tax that directly, this is just a big pointless fucking culture war that does nothing to help climate change.
There is no shared sacrifice here, it’s just “fuck the person that buys this truck”. Nothing to do with emissions or anything like that.
yes... it's politics... call it "culture war" if you want to diminish the other
and yes. fuck the person who bought that truck (the very specific topic of the OP and this whole thread), and skirted the taxes, the very objective measure you purport to uphold.
this truck doesn't even pass the sniff test. it's blatant.
what do you even want?? I have no idea what you're arguing for.
I suggest we sue the shit out of corps skirting taxes. call the individuals who participate assholes.
the only reason you called me out is because for some reason I'm not allowed to have an opinion about this because lines are blurry?? it's called politics, where you hadh out the lines, redraw them, and hash them out again.
if you want to call me an asshole, fine, do it. you might be right, I'm probably a hipocrite in some area I haven't examined yet. but at least I'm trying
The point isn’t that you need to do those things, just that the line is arbitrary, those on one side are precipitating the demise of our planet and those on the other are wackos, righteousness lies on the line itself.
Posture elicits an emotional response and ad-hominem, this (inane I think you called it) conversation being a prime example. One of the reasons people are so divided is because we tend to lazily rely on how something makes us feel rather than doing the hard work of estimating the actual impact of something.
an individual's emotional response gets them to act. rational people tell them where to channel their energy. we need both.
but you put up goal posts marking objective things people can do better on, as if to check whether or not I'm allowed to have an opinion on this truck (which is the inane part, not the whole conversation) tho I'm tired of it as well.
I met those goal posts and went further because I've been acting on the emotional and rational responses for years now.
my point is that we don't need "arbitrary" lines to find out whether this specific truck skirting these specific taxes is crossing them. it's so flagrant it doesn't need an emotional or rational justification.
it clearly does.
just admit your original comment was an emotional one, go back and read it and tell me it wasn't at all.
I don't care whether we are polarized. I don't believe we are going to experience a magical unification where we figure out politics out and defeat climate change.
it's a slow train downhill and everybody who isn't getting on board now (trying and learning to reduce) is my enemy. end of story.
