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for a bunch, it's that their entire personality is wrapped up in burning carbon. they know it's bad. they're not completely stupid, they simply think their hobbies - vroom vroom bullshit like cars, bikes, trucks, dune buggies, rock-climbing jet skiing etc, they think it shouldn't count because some other asshole is producing even more carbon than they are.
the cult of vroom vroom is gonna watch cars race in circles until we don't have a breathable atmosphere, and they'll never admit they're the fucking problem too.
It's not just cars. Cars are a problem because countries like America have such a hard on for driving bricks the size of a house. Efficiëncy might be a good start there...
Most of what you order online from Chinese factories is a bigger issue than some rally sport or F1. Hell driving a V8 engine full blast for a day is nothing compared to what some companies output in CO2 in seconds.
A modern car is not so bad at burning fuel efficiently. Driving electric is a great improvement, yes. but only if the electric energy is not made by burning a fossil fuel or turf or something. In that case burning it in an engine would probably be less of a pollutant. Politics are bad and corrupt. But many things are also much more complex in order to be solved, than just typing about people and their vroom vroom identity. If you want to improve the world start by doing something in your immediate surroundings. Vote for the people that show interest in renewables and such. Even in shithole countries like America, you can still change things.
By your logic, if your hobby would be anything other than Gardening or maintaining a wood, you are very much part of the problem. Even by using internet or charging any battery you are actively using the burning of fossil fuels. It's unavoidable. So maybe do less of that if you care?
And no. I won't stop using internet, or driving a car. But I am about to buy a home battery in combation with solar panels on my house to make sure I use as little electricity as possible from sources outside of the sun. I have enough money to do that and will spend it to change what's within my power. No pun intended. The town I live in pays for each concrete tile you give to them, in return for plants that you can plant in the holes they leave. I planted several bushes and a fruit tree for free because of this.
I am not stating you or anyone else must do that too, because that's not my place. But I can only advise that you try to change your own habits and be more mindful of what it is you use or do. Don't attack others for doing the wrong thing but change what's possible and help others try too.
This is precisely what I'm talking about, thank you for being an object lesson:
FOLKS
IT'S NOT ABOUT WHO'S DOING MORE BAD SHIT THAN YOU'RE DOING
IT'S ALL ADDING UP TO DESTROYING OUR ECOSYSTEM. YOUR PART COUNTS TOO. AND YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER IT.
IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO, THAT'S ON YOU - BUT STOP ACTING LIKE YOUR PART DOESN'T COUNT. IT DOES.
I'll 'attack' everyone I see doing it, thanks.
Rock climbing?
sorry, I guess it's more accurately called rock crawling:
https://reddotengineering.com/off-road-adventure-101-the-ins-and-outs-of-rock-crawling-with-your-4x4/
these assholes go out to pristine wilderness, then let their shitmobiles carve it up leaving wheel ruts all over the place; inevitably there's some fuckwit who wrecks their oil pan because they think they have clearance, leaving oil slicks over half the course.
these dickheads will tell you "oh what we're doing doesn't make that much CO2" - when they simply can't realize, it's all more than zero, and their burning our children's future with ever rev of the engine.
Oh, that's awful
I think they really meant "rock climbing jet skiing" which, like "extreme ironing", is not for the feint of heart.
you tried to be funny. it didn't work, but you tried, and that's what matters.