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Re: Tmoon
Posted by 'itpro' on 20 Mar 2009 @ 10:35

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You are missing a number of concepts here; I'll explain:-

I spend the entire time that I am driving being concerned for MY safety and the other around me and how I can affect it by my driving. I expend absolutely ZERO time while I am driving thinking about a crack in the earth opening up and swallowing me, a meteorite hitting me and/or a herd of demented Rhinos running up the A10 and squashing me.

Why the different attitude to those things? Because I CAN affect one and I CANNOT affect the other.

Identically, we CAN affect our CO2 emission but we CANNOT affect the volcano. Do I need to explain that further

Secondly, the probability of the volcano/meteorite is VERY high but the chance that it will affect MY lifetime or any generation that I can IMAGINE is actually VERY low.

However, the CO2 emmissions may WELL affect my lifetime (and seems to have done so have already!), will almost CERTAINLY affect my children and may well be DEVASTATING to my (hopefully fairly soon) grandchildren ........if my damned kids ever pull their fingers out!

So.... ity's PRAGMATISM...

For you, thetre is a similar logic. You KNOW that your emmissions are causing the problem butytou do NOT want to admit it as it would require you to change a lifestyle that you LIKE for the unknown. Your hort-term-ism is similarly 'pragmatic' but, in my opinion,,, not exactly as 'generous' to the future generations.

You'd like to try to muddy the waters in the hope that we, too, will just let YOU carry on damaging the planet for the future..... sorry old son, I am too old for THAT trick!

Ian

Message Thread:

heres one for the alarmists... by 'Tmoon' (19 Mar 2009 @ 16:11)

Re: heres one for the alarmists... by 'itpro' (19 Mar 2009 @ 17:15)

Re: " Fairy stories don;'t alarm us much." .... by 'Chad' (19 Mar 2009 @ 22:38)

Re: by 'Tmoon' (20 Mar 2009 @ 9:58)

Re: Tmoon by 'itpro' << You are here!

Re: Tmoon by 'Tmoon' (20 Mar 2009 @ 10:47)

Re: Tmoon by 'davidmc' (20 Mar 2009 @ 13:34)

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