(December 18, 2016 at 1:59 am)Brian37 Wrote: To be fair to Catholic Lady, she is right, but for the wrong reasons.
I have made the same arguments, not to appeal to my side, but to appeal to any pragmatism we could pull from others.
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Uhm, sure... If people don't want to believe, that police is more likely to shoot a black guy, than a white guy, then let's just say that "ALL lives matter", huh? Let's forget about social ills at the root of our problems, like racism, xenophobia or scientific illiteracy and let's all promise to try to be nice to each other.
You want to pander to dipsh*ts - be my guest. But at the end of the day - you're just giving them the validation they want.
Sure it'd be nice if we all could have shiny new energy-efficient technology - but that's not going to happen overnight. And if people have to chose between an iPhone and feeding their children - it's perfectly fine to go without f*cking Twitter for a while longer, if rotary phone is not going to destroy the world as we know it.
But climate change IS going to wreck havoc on the world, according to people, who know more about climate, than the uneducated peasants. And it is important, that people understand, that their children's future is at risk, and that it's not just a matter of elitist infatuation with their new toys.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
