(09-16-2020, 11:34 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(09-16-2020, 11:18 AM)mikesez Wrote: It's not, though.
Regardless of if we think reducing CO2 emissions is important or not, the question of hypocrisy from people like Gore or Biden is irrelevant.
Imagine if the chairman of the federal reserve said, "there is too much credit card debt held by lower income people.  They need to live within their means or there are risks for the whole economy." Would you react, "oh, easy for you to say, you make $200k per year and you'll make even more in the private sector when your term is over!" Maybe, but it'd be irrelevant, right?

(1) Your people told me we have 12 years to fix this or the world ends and are flying private. Climate change isn't a real thing, and if it were, it couldn't be "fixed".

(2) FYI, I know plenty of high income earners that carry too much credit card debt.

(09-16-2020, 11:26 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(09-16-2020, 11:18 AM)mikesez Wrote: It's not, though.
Regardless of if we think reducing CO2 emissions is important or not, the question of hypocrisy from people like Gore or Biden is irrelevant.
Imagine if the chairman of the federal reserve said, "there is too much credit card debt held by lower income people.  They need to live within their means or there are risks for the whole economy." Would you react, "oh, easy for you to say, you make $200k per year and you'll make even more in the private sector when your term is over!" Maybe, but it'd be irrelevant, right?

Why does the wording keep changing? Why is it always doom and gloom? Because fear is a great motivator to get people to buy stuff they think will save them or the world.

The reality is the world will just kill us if we threaten it. It's been around for 4 billion years... it knows how to purge itself.