They produce a ton of food and oil, and they permit a ton of solar power. They enable the vanities of places that look down on them like LA County and it’s not hard to see why people have a little chip on their shoulder about that.

Also it’s a pretty gorgeous place.

Why must I, the protagonist of reality, deviate from my base preferences to accommodate the existence of other human beings? Clearly this is the fault of the profit motive

All the derivatives after the first look good WRT climate change solutions. Buying us more time has real value in that situation.

Yes, good analogy. Not a device you ever want to be using and if your own bad choices have gotten you there, you should probably rerun those choices in your mind. But also, you should use the tourniquet and not moralize about it being an easy way out of your bad choices.

“It would be reckless to mess with climate like that”
Yeah and that’s what we’ve been doing for 100 years!

Population trends in the US suggest you’re not in the minority I guess…

Was going to say this is the worst weather take ever but aren’t you from Houston ;)