[lapcat]

> I used to go to college.

College students are your example of poor people? I can see why we're having trouble here.

Poor people can't afford to go to college, unless they have a full-ride scholarship or massive student loans (which they'll have to pay back later). The cost of water bottles is quite irrelevant here, when college is vastly more expensive than water.

> a homeless person with $10 goes to a store

Are we now going to blame global warming on... the homeless? (Going back to the OP: "The worst thing for the environment is poverty.")

Anyway, the homeless are only a subset of the poor.

It should also be said that homelessness is not a result of "kneecapping our economy" (OP) but rather our Darwinistic social policy that allows people to fall through the cracks. We have homelessness even in the "best" of economic times, and often in the wealthiest of places (SF, NYC).

> You're looking at a poor person who has the money to save. I'm looking at a poor person who doesn't.

I'm looking at low income people. Mainly, the working poor. People who have an income, and also expenses, but who are not destitute and begging for spare change on the street. It is possible for low income people to budget over the long term, i.e., monthy, yearly, etc.

> How about "how much does a cheap ICE car cost vs a cheap EV"?

Well, public transportation would be the most environmentally friendly option, and also the cheapest.

You'll usually have a harder time convincing a wealthier person to take public transportation than a poor person.

[jamescostian]

You've repeatedly made leaps between what I've said and horrible arguments I never made, and you've never, not even once, admitted to a single good point being made by me - if I retort something, it's never "my b", always "no, let me twist your words, maybe pretend your argument was this strawman". And recently, straight up ad-hominem.

In the future, consider arguing differently.