This is a thread of comments under the article “Head Of The Episcopal Church Says It’s ‘Sinful’ To Ignore Climate Change”

A commenter posted about how “nothing will happen until China does something” (a typical argument against taking any action at all)

So I chimed in:

• Dale Lature · Top Commenter · Freelance Web Community developer/researcher at Freelance Web Community Researcher/Developer

  this will never get solved if everyone just “waits” on everyone else to act. That is ultimately CHILDISH. We might as well be saying that since EVERYONE doesn’t act in Christ-like fashion then neither will we. CopOut.

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  Ben Williamson · Top Commenter

  I think the “they don’t do it so we don’t have to either” excuse is the most pitiful tactic I’ve seen from climate change deniers. It’s like, after being pounded with so much evidence over the years, you finally accept climate change as reality, but you just can’t make the leap to agree with intelligent people in that we should work to do something about it.

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  Dale Lature · Top Commenter · Freelance Web Community developer/researcher at Freelance Web Community Researcher/Developer

  yep, Ben, that’s the next layer, but the only viable one to get into, since if we don’t , it wont make a bit of difference if we “believe in man-made global warming” or not. This next step is the actual economic/social change we must initiate if anything is to change. Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate” brought this home to me in a way that I can now no longer look back from being convinced it is the primary moral issue of our time, since very literally the whole of civilization as we know it is at stake.

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  (Hmmm…never realized I had reached “Top Commenter” level)