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by rotw 2818 days ago
> I prefer having bearable temperatures where I live, sleep and have visitors,

What gives you the right to all that at the direct expense of the people who can't afford it?

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The right of the stronger, fitter. I’m sorry if it hurts your feelings, but that‘s how nature and evolution works. Perhaps your religion preaches something else, but why should I care?
Please keep generic ideological tangents off HN, especially when the thread topic is already divisive. They just lead to predictable flamewars, equal parts destructive and tedious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you accept climate change is real, and accept we need to tackle the problem, the simplest and most powerful solution would be coordinated action. However, we are stuck in a prisoners dilemma, because people with your attitude will not stop, will not change, and if that is say 1/100 people then it becomes unbearable for the other 99, socially and economically, to commit to the plan.
I'm not sure I can convince you otherwise. If memory serves, even Socrates reached an impasse with Thrasymachus.