The richest 10% use 20 times more fossil fuels than the poorest 10%. The powerful are currently imposing ill health and financial costs onto us by letting themselves pollute for free. You getting cancer so a rich person can be richer isn’t helpful to you. Why would the powerful worry about something that makes them richer and will will mostly harm you?
Climate related natural disasters have increased by hundreds of percent over the last 4-6 decades or so.
Are you unaware that fossil fuel pollution damages peoples health and that is unrelated to its effects on temperatures and climate? Coal miners maybe able to tell you how the lungs are harmed by coal dust.
Hypothesis: breathing in harmful chemicals harms peoples health. (Complaining about the harms of masks while insisting the rich dump heavy metals and pollution into the air is an interesting position)
Hypothesis: changing the atmosphere by increasing greenhouse gasses increases temperatures and natural disasters.
The data for those things are available. The effects of pollution have been tested. If you want to argue that car exhaust isn’t harmful do so but pretending like it is impossible to test if pollution is harmful because the tests reject your “fossil fuel religion” is an argument vaxxers make.
It’s interesting how you’re asking me what the ideal climate is while insisting that the rich and powerful be able to make money changing the climate. The ideal climate for the middle class is the one where natural disasters don’t increase by hundreds of percent so the rich can get richer.
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