Hypocrisy only starts if also conceit and paternalism sets in. In a certain way, normal disturbing emotions, actually easy to get rid of.
But in a certain way, you are right, that I don't even fear carbon tons, but something else Since my travel I actually love tropical climates, I almost never used ventilators there. Love sweating too much, but hate AC. Even where there are still glaciers in the alps now, there were birch trees growing 7 thousands years ago only. I can't help but see, that hotter climate was exactly the time many human civilizations took off. Many of those gone again.
However, carbon tons are also an equivalent for resources depletion, poisoning earth, water, air and all living things around, including ourselves. And our own children. There, for me only, without preaching or paternalizing, hypocrisies ends. It is a fact, we don't leave anything to survive with dignity to our own children.
Let it sink in, if one is able too, and hypocrisies ceases. Also, such notions that atomic waste, the most toxic of all wastes at such amounts, with no workable solution since its inauguration 70 years ago, would help to reduce carbon, is only a delusion to create even further profits and wastes. Same as electrification of mobility, which would use too much toxic mining, our earth couldn't remedy anymore. We are at, and are witnessing the fall down of our own civilization. And nothing one does to reduce the toxic waste of modern living, can stop that on the societal level. If we understand, are in the position to, and wish, we still can reduce toxic waste on the individual level. Without hypocrisy.
Therefore, even without hypocrisy or paternalism, one still doesn't have to buy it. But live with it.
Then don't. I had the repeated lucky and uncommon experience on my world travel, that whenever running out of money, I saw the best humans are able to. And a gladness, which makes any convenience in comparison fade. Therefore in my unique case, minimal heating and lightning, the least cloths or machines, actually does give me deeper satisfaction, than otherwise. But without such experience, and only has the never ending promising advertisements, than simply don't.
I see it more through the lens of developmental psychology. In the early days of humanity we depended as groups on strong leaders, being able to provide security from wild animals, other groups, and sustenance. The people in power always and to this day to a certain extent get their standing through each of us.
The difference right now is, that power gets unshakable with the profiling and immediate elimination through AI (as in the examples of Gaza, or the US border control).
Limiting AI is as impossible as limiting environmental pollution on the societal level. Individually, one still can. But also here without paternalizing. It will bring results on the individual level. On the societal level, this civilization is toast.
As all past and gone Civilizations shows us, small surviving groups of people always started new Civilizations. Somehow, I'm pretty certain, it will be without AI again.
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