Yup it's one of the many ways in which our sense of cultural "virtue" is deeply disconnected from realityhttps://twitter.com/chrisrywalt/status/839180724129366016 …
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In this case the bias is really deeply ingrained and tied to really stupid really old shit abt how living in a warm climate is lazier
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Anyway if you had dictatorial powers and wanted to save us from climate change #1 thing you could do is move the big cities south
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#2 thing would be to move everyone closer together into the big cities
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#3, probably making everyone stop eating meat, but that's actually a ways behind #1 and 2
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Sam Harris, whom I dislike on a multitude of levels, actually made a good point abt cultural shibboleths re: fireplaces
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A traditional fireplace or wood burning stove is incredibly bad for the environment and public health
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It's been demonstrated over and over, to the point where a huge top priority in developing countries is replacing wood burning
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But if you try to tell ppl to get rid of their fireplaces the resistance is incredibly high, even among liberal "green" households
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Same ppl who will happily join in the shaming for stuff that's really not as bad but we decided was, like say driving an SUV
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(I guarantee you some percentage of these people have copped an attitude abt ppl "cranking up the AC")
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