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"It is hard to say openly that you don’t care about the long-term future of the planet because you won’t be alive to see it, or because your short-term profits are more important. So respectable-sounding arguments about the affordability of climate policies are made instead.
But the pushback against these policies should be seen for what it is: a highly political attempt to spare the rich and other heavy carbon emitters from making sacrifices."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/11/super-rich-pollution-earth-climate-crisis
There's something fundamentally wrong with this #attitude. If you start from the position that any #viewpoint that is different from your own is #invalid and not held in good faith, what's the point of discussing anything at all?
You're only listening to people who already agree with you. It's an echo chamber, and you pre-emptively dismiss anyone on the outside as evil/disingenuous/corrupt/whatever.
@cazabon this is not about “any” argument or “anyone” who disagrees. This is about one particular argument and some particular people who have an enormous monetary incentive to filibuster the public sphere.