The big lie we’re told about climate change is that it’s our own fault
&gt;If the light switch was connected to clean energy, who the hell cares if you left it on? The problem is not so much the consumption, it’s the supply. And your scrap paper did not hasten the end of the world.<p>The major issue this misunderstands is that transportation is the lynch pin of a global economy and transportation has and for the foreseeable future will continue to require high energy density fuels to continue running. Quality of life in modern society is heavily dependent on the import and export of resources. Look around your living space and ask yourself where did all of these things come from? It doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s a &quot;local&quot; farm 40 miles outside your city, it still took considerable fossil fuels to bring them to you.<p>The issue isn&#x27;t that global warming is happening because we&#x27;re too lazy to turn off the lights, but rather because we refuse to accept a drastically lower standard of living. To prevent global warming we would have had to radically alter modern life decades ago, and who would have voted for the politician that had the platform of &quot;lower standard of living for longer living&quot; in the early 90s or 80s or ideally the immediate post-war period?