Yep, back to Treehugger and the end of shopping. Pretty much, places like Dollar General and the like would be toast – can’t buy cheap stuff (gosh, would that mean the end of Chinese manufacturing? Jus’ spitballing here)? Recap: reformatted, emphasis mine:
Economists and central bankers around the world are forecasting a post-pandemic economic boom, predicting that pent-up demand, unspent savings, and government incentives will drive us to the stores in droves. And indeed, in the U.S., retail sales increased 7.5% in June while in the United Kingdom, retailers report their best month since November 2016. It’s one of the reasons that our global carbon emissions will likely shoot back up to where they were before the pandemic; there is a big carbon footprint to making all that stuff. That’s why many are questioning our consuming ways and suggest we resist the urge.
And Part 1 ended with:
How many among us are living proof that this species is truly too imbecilic to last, who would ignore the warnings of our best minds that we’re causing our own destruction? Who among us is so self-centered as to not care about any of that because it’ll all happen after we’re dead? And how many of those pretend to be religious?
They keep acting like it is an IMMEDIATE existential threat even as I keep pointing out it’s been that way since the first Earth Day back in 1971 – and not a single prediction has come true. So it ISN’T immediate, not by a long shot. Five decades isn’t “immediate” if you’re a human being. They hate that singular fact – it harshes their Narrrative. So if nothing is happening, how can one be self-centered in being against that which isn’t happening…
Anyways, like many places, it’s the comments that count and where the free-for-alls happens. I happen to engage – not just because it’s fun but it sharpens up debating skills as well as showing the rest here how the other side thinks and acts. In this time of the Americanized Mao’s Cultural Revolution that’s being forced upon us, it’s information that’s needed. So, without further ado, more from “What Happens If the World Stops Shopping?” (reformatted, emphasis mine) in which “ctrombly”, one of the stickiest of the commenters, decided to try to double down – and nose planted:
And yet you continue to offer childish, ridiculously simplistic reasons to continue as we are, while this mind-crushingly complex bag of problems that we have created continues to slowly wrap its tendrils around our throats.
And seriously – why do you continue to believe that sustainability must come at the cost of poverty? It would mean a different life. Not a poor one, unless we choose to make that so. If you have insufficient imagination to even ponder a life that is different from the one you’ve known, no wonder your arguments on this topic are so ludicrous.
I don’t know your stance on right to life and I don’t care. But it seems just a little incongruous that conservatives, those who despise change so much that they would knowingly allow our actions to snuff out all future generations of our species – as you just did – feel justified to whine and cry about terminating pregnancies.
Can there be any more striking an example of self-serving hypocrisy?
I went for the low hanging fruit on this one: BECAUSE Y’ALL KEEP SAYING IT!
why do you continue to believe that sustainability must come at the cost of poverty?
Because, pretty much, every “Great Idea” that comes from the Eco-Socialist side of Environmentalism DEPENDS on a much lower standard of living than what the Modern World / First World has now. You’ve all said it yourselves – can’t have this, can’t do that, we have to take this away from you, can’t go there, can’t eat this, can’t wear that, we’ll determine your day for you, can’t have a truck, can’t have a car, must use public transportation or walk, we’ll all get stuffed into cities in micro-apartments, no fridge for you, and you WILL BE HAPPY AND NEIGHBORLY because we say so.
No Individualism for anyone – it’s all about the Collectivist “common good“.
By the time our “bettors” are done determining how our lives are to be lived, the thoughts we’re allowed to think, and the speech we’re allowed to say, life won’t be worth living – and that’s TRUE poverty.
You folks know that – have brought that message back before. If you actually went and spent time there, the above is no exaggeration. Especially the burgers…one a week, one a month – anything to stop EVERY greenhouse gas (cow farts, dontcha know). And of course, no more shopping. Micro-apartments for us all back in a crowded, smelly, crime-ridden. Did last summer let us know what clap-trap that is?
To Be Continued….and he thinks that “freedom to be a jerk” is going to make me stop?
