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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
So I do that and people still tell me crap like, but do you buy diamonds? do you not (insert fad du jour) because that's just what the planet needs ala buying carbon credits?
The concensus of scientists have been wrong in the past, and will be wrong again in the future. If you don't accept that as a possibility you are more smug than what you are accusing ustwo of.
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cynthetiq...I commend you on your personal actions but disagree with you on an acceptance of social responsibility as well.
I accept that the current consensus of the global warming scientific community may be proven wrong at some point in the future.
If we do nothing until such time, the environment suffers.....
If we do something in the way of policies that support both economic and environmental sustainability and a new consensus emerges, the environment is still better off...
So tell me, what do we gain by waiting to see if a new consensus might be around the corner...in two years, 10 years, 50 years...or not?