Comment by mapontosevenths

> I'm at the point where I don't engage with bad faith arguments because they just end up in frustration on both sides.

I agree, and that's almost exactly why I replied to your statement that anyone who saw it differently than you did was "just following a religion" (to slightly paraphrase). They aren't, they just have a different perspective on the situation and have just made different calculations regarding the risk/reward ratio.

> Ignoring or disregarding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a sure way to be surprised and rejected by the people.

>I'm looking medium to long term, the same scale that I think needs to be considered for the planet.

I don't think they ARE ignoring Maslow's hierarchy. It seems to me, that they just see the environmental destruction as being a more immediate concern than you do. You seem to have a "we'll fix it when it's more convenient" stance. That doesn't work for the folks who believe we'll all be starving within a decade or less, or who believe that it will NEVER be more convenient. To them this is near the top of the hierarchy.

At the end of the day, I'm very much on your side of the argument. I think we do have some time to sort it out, and I suspect that we will eventually make significant progress towards those goals (despite modern Republicans Ostrich based approach to risk). However, I understand why other people disagree, and I respect that. There's even some science that agrees with the "sky is falling" crowd. It's certainly not a totally irrational stance.