# Climate change: "You are among the last people that will ever walk the Earth."

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**Created:** [February 22, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-you-are-among-the-last-people-that-will-ever-walk-the-earth/651096 "2013-02-22T18:27:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/climate-change-you-are-among-the-last-people-that-will-ever-walk-the-earth/651096/200 "2013-03-17T12:02:36Z")

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I wrote

> [@septimus](#):
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> The way forward for those who want to reduce CO2 emissions, is _not_ personal sacrifice, but _political action_. Those blaming Al Gore for his carbon footprint are the same nattering hypocrites who ask why Warren Buffett, if he advocates higher taxes on the rich, doesn’t pay higher taxes voluntarily.

To which you responded

> [@Chief\_Pedant](#):
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> … Mr Buffet will continue to not voluntarily pay higher taxes because he prefers to control where his money goes. He’s not being hypocritical …
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> Mr Gore and and I will continue to consume because, well, we like stuff…  
> This is not nattering hypocrisy.

Your repetition of “nattering hypocrisy” strongly suggests that you had misplaced my antecedent. Your subsequent correction occurred only after my later reply.

I don’t have time to reply to the rest of your post now, except to recommend this:

> [@Do Conservatives Understand That Liberals Don't Really Like Government Spending?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-conservatives-understand-that-liberals-dont-really-like-government-spending/652428/111):
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> … the charitable principle that we must take ideas seriously and characterise them in their most robust and defensible form. Only the weak-minded attack ideas in their inferior genus, whether that means a real poor-man version of something or a confected strawman.

If **GIGObuster** accidentally conflated two different versions of a carbon tax, it was your duty, as an honest seeker of truth, to deal with the stronger version, not to nitpick GIGO’s slip.

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