by al78 » Sat Oct 20, 2018 6:52 pm
It is not about saving the planet, it is about saving our future, which involves killing emissions asap and moving on to a sustyainable lifestyle. If we don't do this, we run out of one or more essential resources at some point in the not too distant future which, as history will tell us, leads to mass death and suffering.
Unfortunately, humans are not intelligent enough to see it beneficial to invest now to secure the future. Much better to party on now and dump the consequences on the poorer people of the world who have little power to do anything about it, or future generations who will be left dealing with cleaning up the mess our unsustainable lifestyles have created.
It comes down to ethics and values. Some people see no value in life other than themselves, friends and relatives, so wouldn't care about a global mass extinction as long as they personally were fine. Unfortunately these sort of people are the ones that get elected into positions of high power, such is the stupidity and thoughtlessness of humanity. Perhaps we deserve what we get.