[biohacker85]

I'll answer this in good faith. I can't help but be skeptical yet practice a version of "pascals wager" but apply it to climate change. I drive an electric vehicle, power my house with solar, reduce air travel, etc. I have 2 major issues: The first is that the environmental damage we are currently doing-- destruction of our oceans, polluting our air and water, etc. will destroy our planet in a few generations any ways, climate change not required. Second is that I am skeptical of our governments response. I don't believe they genuinely care about solving it other than making money off it. Does it really matter if I am skeptical? I am doing what little a normal citizen is expected to do to fight it.

*edit: fixed spelling

[photonerd]

What you describe there isn’t skepticism (you concede everything but then claim, somehow, that all that isn’t climate change… bizarrely).

It’s apathy.

[biohacker85]

> you concede everything

Air/ocean pollution and environmental damage !== climate change.

Climate change is specifically about greenhouse emissions trapping the suns heat causing long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.

> It’s apathy

I am following the prescribed "action plan" for the average citizen. What would you have me do? Not everyone can be a political activist.

My point was that even in a hypothetical scenario where climate change is false (no rise in global temperatures or change in weather patterns), the damage we are doing to the earth is still enough to destroy it.