Going green
Posted by kalkalmanek 10 years, 7 months ago to Philosophy
How about all the people that think that we are causing the world to heat up by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and we should stop using fossil fuels. Non of then should use any electricity that is produced by fossil fuel, coal, oil and natural gas or they would be considered a hypocrite.
I don't think I'm a hypocrite even when I burn stuff to produce things people want. We should use the world to provide things we want. My running a reflow oven incurs a small cost on future generations but provides something someone wants right now. Someone building a noisy factory might destroy value of the surrounding land but create value for many people. We just have to balance it and make our activities a net positive, not an unwilling transfer from someone else to us.