The problem with the smoking argument is that everyone's going to die of something and for any given individual who dies of natural causes, whatever kills them will in one way or another, at least tenuously, be linkable back to a lifestyle choice. When my mom stopped smoking she started on the high fat sweets, her cholesterol went up and she eventually died of a heart attack. Direct consequence of quitting smoking? Probably not but it may have been a contributing factor. There is no way of knowing for any individual, whether an alternative lifestyle choice would have been better or worse.
Back to global warming. I'm pretty much convinced that global warming will cause major climate changes. What I'm less convinced of is that those changes will necessarily be disasterous for either human beings or the planet. For example, global warming may delay that overdue ice age we're expecting. I'm even less convinced that we CAN stop global warming, at least while maintaining current rates of human population expansion. So I'm doing my bit by having chosen not to have children.
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Date: 2007-12-18 04:25 pm (UTC)Back to global warming. I'm pretty much convinced that global warming will cause major climate changes. What I'm less convinced of is that those changes will necessarily be disasterous for either human beings or the planet. For example, global warming may delay that overdue ice age we're expecting. I'm even less convinced that we CAN stop global warming, at least while maintaining current rates of human population expansion. So I'm doing my bit by having chosen not to have children.