- Sun Nov 29, 2020 2:10 pm
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"Living near the shore does not cause climate change. "-johnforbes
Then why do you keep insisting Kerry is doing something to make climate change worse, johnny? You keep accusing him of hypocrisy by living at the sea side even as you admit it is not causing climate change or making it worse in any way. In other words, his lifestyle choices are consistent with his stance against climate change. Now go look up the word "hypocrisy".
As long as Kerry is fighting to slow climate change and he isn't doing anything against that goal personally, then he isn't a hypocrite, dummy. He isn't asking anyone not to do something he is doing. He doesn't say anyone else can't buy a house by the sea but he can. He is consistent; exactly the opposite of a hypocrite.
A hypocrite would be someone who says we should try to stop climate change as he drills for more oil and gas and while putting roadblocks in place to stop the development of renewable energy sources. Kerry isn't doing that. Trump is.
"Kerry and the Obamas don't believe in rising seas or climate change, which is why they bought mansions on the water."-johnfibs
Of course they believe in climate change. Nothing they have done indicates otherwise. You simply made it up.
What they "believe" about sea level rise is irrelevant to their political stance on climate change. They are not the same thing, dimwit. They have the same estimates you have concerning sea level rise, but to you estimates aren't real. To Kerry and the Obama's they ARE real. That's why they are willing to gamble on seaside homes now before they die.
Climate change won't just destroy you at the sea shore. It will destroy you in the desert. Climate change will destroy you in presently-arable lands that will become arid in a few decades. Climate change will kill off thousands of species of animals. Climate change will cause temperature extremes that will freeze your pipes and stop your cars in the winter. You are essentially calling them hypocrites no matter WHERE they choose to live. That's just stupid.
Living in a seaside 'mansion' does nothing to cause climate change, as you said. So if you aren't accusing Kerry of contributing to climate change by his choice of living quarters, where is the hypocrisy? Whatever personal financial risks you are willing to take on before you die is your choice. Knowing you will be dead before the changes inundate your seaside home means you are quite free to live there despite climate change. You may also move to the desert now even though it will be too dry and too hot to live there 50 years from now. That doesn't make you a hypocrite either.
In fact, knowing how fast the sea levels will rise and temperatures will rise because you accept the reality of climate change merely means you have the information you need to evaluate your acceptable risks before you die. You should do it too, johnny. Our military is doing it every day. Donald Trump is doing it too, as his sea wall in Florida attests. The difference with Trump is he knows perfectly well it is happening but instead of policies that slow the change, his policies are accelerating the change by opening the Arctic for oil drilling, for example. In other words, he knows climate change is happening but he just doesn't give a fuck. Kerry and the Obama's do things to mitigate the change. Trump does things to make it worse.
As long as you don't contribute to climate change, it doesn't matter where you live. So there is no hypocrisy in living by the ocean or anywhere else. Personally, I wouldn't buy that house because I would want to pass it on someday as is. Unfortunately, the future owners of that property will have to tear it down and build a new house on stilts. And by then it will probably be worth $50 million.
I thought you understood about investing, johnny. Now you should learn about investing without harming the climate. You wouldn't want to be a hypocrite would you?
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