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What harm could one coal mine do? Plenty – 1.7 million Hiroshima bombs of heat for starters
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And people complain about doomers. We can't even get out of coal and we are talking "first world" nations. How the heck are we going to get off oil and further on natural gas. The fact that coal was not ended by 2000 much less 2020 and looks like 2030 is doubtful, its just crazypants.
The problem with doomerism is that idea that it's inevitable, and you can't do anything about it, even though the decision to burn is very much a human one.
Do you have any numbers or studies to support your claim?
I hear that all the time. I am a doomer and long for meaningful action, even if it makes my life harder.
I don't fly, hardly travel, live very simple without aircon or heating. Don't eat much meat.
I would love to travel. I enjoy driving, I have a thing for combustion engines. I most times sit out the heat and don't even turn on the fan. I like the taste of beef, yet never buy it. I do this despite me believing that it doesn't make much of a difference and it will certainly not save me.
Some rich person will pollute all I save during my life within a few minutes.
For real change, I believe, it must come from politics, not individuals. And forget about company's responsibility, they clearly don't care.
I just don't see this happening. That's why I believe we won't make it.
Yet, this realization has only made me restricting myself harder. Before I believed so, I lead a much more polluting way of life. "'Cause someone will figure it out"
I think like this: Knowing everyone must die one day, still in no way it justifies doing bad.