Arathain Kelvar wrote:
Don't conflate environmentalism / conservation with global warming. There are very real conservation concerns if you ignore global warming completely. Most of it is compatible with common sense - over fishing, discharge of toxic pollutants, breakup of habitats into smaller and smaller areas, interruption of migration zones, etc. We all understand the codependent nature of ecosystems, and it's fairly intuitive that we should try not to throw the balance out of whack too much.
Likewise, there are plenty of environmental and social reasons for us to reduce carbon emissions (or take other actions that would have a side effect of reducing carbon emissions) that have nothing to do with global warming. I see climate change as a non-issue because even if it's a real problem, it will either solve itself, or we'll have far worse problems in the near future than climate change.