If you don't want to do anything, then you look for reasons to do nothing. If you want to do something, you look for ways to do something.
Brilliant summation of this entire thread...indeed the entirety of climate-change denial. Conservatives like to fix problems, but only if they can do it for free. As soon as a problem needs other people (and money) to fix, they'll bend themselves into incredible contortions to deny there's any problem at all, that in fact, the solution itself is the problem.
One guy I know told me the consequences of doing too much to combat global warming are far worse than the consequences of doing nothing, because it would lead to a global Marxist state and tens of millions of people would die in forced labor camps, etc. For real.
The microscopic chance we would turn into a global Stalinist state is a much greater risk than the millions, maybe billions of people dying from war, disease and famine as the ice caps melt and most of the land mass becomes uninhabitable desert. In fact, there's a MUCH great chance of totalitarianism taking hold of the planet if we're all fighting for resources. Duh.
That's a subject I really wish were a part of our founding documents, something about finite resources and beware of endless growth.
But the cheerleaders for the purity and perfection of unregulated free-market "capitalism" (never mind no such thing has ever existed) MUST believe in endless growth and consumption. That's because it's basically a Ponzi scheme that accumulates wealth at the top and shakes out crumbs for the masses, and some of them get to the top and then poorer people take their place. So acknowledging our planet is fragile, with finite resources and a complex ecosystem that's easily damaged by human activity reminds them just how wrong they are.
