[dudeman13]

>Ah yes, the countryside. Not quite sure how we're going to be housing 7+billion in the countryside.

A short-term solution may be viable for the individual while not doing anything for society at large.

Mind you, the short-term solution still seems crap to me anyway since "lolz just move your life" is bollocks.

[corpMaverick]

Seems like on of those cases where "what is good for the individual is bad for the whole population if every body follows the advice" I remember seeing this when I took economics but I can't remember how it is called.

[sjwalter]

The universal principle of Kant's categorical imperative is likely this.

Something like, take actions that were the principles behind them applied to and adopted by all of society, that society would still be one you'd like to live in.

FWIW, I moved outta the city and bought a farm and it's been the best move of my life.

[p_j_w]

It sounds like you violated the very imperative you mentioned, though. If everyone did what you did, the world would be worse. This doesn't address the problem at hand.

[sjwalter]

I didn't say I agree with it. And I disagree the world would be worse.

The world would be much less filled with stress.

Everyone here seems so insanely focused on carbon emissions that anything rural is like verboten--THINK OF THE CAR DEPENDENCE!! lol

[p_j_w]

First off, there's not enough land for the world's population to live like that. If everyone tried to do that, there'd actually be more stress because people would be fighting over their precious extra acre.

>Everyone here seems so insanely focused on carbon emissions

Given climate change and what drives it, is it any wonder? Creating some disasters in the future so we can have less stress now isn't a very good tradeoff.

[sjwalter]

It's like voting--if you know game theory, you know that voting is a waste of your time.

If I spent all my life avoiding "car dependence" at all, much less with the goofy fervor of the virtue-signalling green crew on the internet, I'd have roughly zero impact on climate change.

As it stands, I get to enjoy big ol' diesel trucks and dirtbikes and motorcycles.

Plenty of people don't enjoy these things and are happy sitting on the bus and enjoying things in cities, movie theaters or museums or whatever.

I just have different preferences.

Luckily, my preferences seem rare, so it's no worry.

Also, the biggest driver of climate change is the sun.

[verbify]

Tragedy of the commons

[chiefofgxbxl]

Sounds like a prisoner's dilemma, where from an individual perspective it makes sense to make a certain decision, but the same holds true from anyone else's perspective, and when everyone does it you end up in a worse-off situation than if everyone had cooperated.