Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month

Re:Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month by xfitm3 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:30AM (#21572624)

That's a stretch. I enjoy creature comforts. Hot high flow showers, A/C, a muscle car. My life is better with these features. It's not practical to advocate abstaining from these things.

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Re:Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month by jlangenauer on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:49AM (#21572746)

What you're really saying is that you don't pay the external costs of these things, and you don't care that anyone else has to either - people in poorer countries who will be affected by new and dangerous weather, or even your own children.

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Re:Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month by abyssin on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:50AM (#21572748)

You can say you life is good with these features, but how can you say it's better? How did you compare?

Here's another question. Is practicality the adequate criteria to judge the ethical implication of some behaviour?

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