Evolution and Christianity and Salvation

[The Grand Nudger]

The discourse and a global conversation are good for providing definition. I just don’t find it as productive as individual engagement and responsibility on equally positive and do-able goals.

FWIW, neither do I.  Things like a carbon tax or..pretty much any topdown solution, are stopgaps that do nothing but buy the individual time to realize that the onus is on them. Like I mentioned, I've put my money, all of my money, where my mouth is. Until such a time as other people as individuals (not as people in a collective damage reduction scheme) do something like that, we'll still be talking about it, still not solving it.

I have utopian climate principles, I acknowledge that, nothing I dream of will ever come to be beyond the steps of my own house, but in the balance of difference between where we are and where my dreams lay..even the stalling responses we engineer at the level of government will have to slide more closely to those principles than they do to any...any......type of avoidance, even the most passive or otherwise well intentioned.

I read your link. There's literally nothing in there to indicate whatever that person was talking about....but hey, they're probably good goals......thank non existent christ we can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time, I guess? Whatever (and whichever) those good goals are, we should do that too...but, like killing a man, killing agw isn't going to be best accomplished by obliquely striking at his ears. Aim center mass, pull the trigger, let people yell at you about what you've done after the fact. There are going to be people who paint you (and what you've done) as ...somehow, villainous or stupid...regardless. Well, okay, lean in, and be the stupid bad guy who covered the smart good guys asses while they bitched you out for doing so and did whatever they thought was a better idea. At the end of the day, you'll only have solved multiple problems rather than just the one easier (but equally worthy) thing.

Or we can do nothing, we can walk but elect -not- to chew bubblegum....and I'll make alot of money off of that by doing something. A very smart person once explained to me that the essence of success was to account for the predictable failures of others and make them somehow profitable to you as you do the right thing. If you just do the right thing, well, good for you, but you're gonna be poor on account of it.