[adamjc]

How many flights have you taken in your lifetime? How many children do you have? Do you eat meat? Do you use multiple monitors when a 14" one would do? Why don't you cycle instead of using an EV? Do you not use solar panels? You could apply this reductionist logic to almost everything in the world.

"Freeloading on the rest of us", "some sacrifice might be required". What a depressing, dictatorial view.

Sacrificing people doesn't seem especially kind. Be kind, eh. When it suits you, I guess.

[toomuchtodo]

Great questions, because people should be accountable. I have spent over $500k on clean mobility and energy solutions (EVs, rooftop solar on all of my properties [primary, secondary, rentals]) as of this comment, and offset all of my family's annual carbon emissions using credits from verified direct air capture providers. We keep flights to an absolute minimum (I have put ~110k miles on Model S in 6 years traveling cross country), and again, offset those emissions. We are vegetarians. I have two children, and I cut a check to someone who was getting permanent birth control to buy their unwanted fertility essentially. They had already made the decision ("want to hear something cool? I'm getting my tubes out!"), my action was more symbolic but still important.

If you have no resources, as I've said elsewhere, we should absolutely provide you the means to make choices that both improve your quality of life and are good for the climate. Tax me more, provide the subsidies. More EVs, more heat pumps, more solar panels. If you are of means and make choices dumping externalities on others, clearly you can understand my position that those folks get wrecked. I have attempted to align my actions with my position on the topic out of integrity. I agree contributions towards a solution as well as sacrifice should be proportional.

Could you explain why asking people to pay their fully loaded costs is being a dictator? Don't their rights end where our shared rights being? Is enforcing rights and their boundaries tyranny? Or is it just fair and just? Not rhetorical questions. I am attempting to do my part, and besides that, voting, and perhaps running for office, that's all I can do.