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"Camps I'm sure you'd like to set up."
No, mate, camps like the ones that already exist ... for people like those in New Orleans and the Gulf States; for the Tuvalese who are having to move 75,000 people a year off their islands (where they've lived for several 1000 years) because of rising sea levels); for all of the people in the developing world who can't afford to build jetties and ruin the ecosystem for future generations like selfish US Americans.
"You've never been off-road, you have no idea about the vehicular requirements needed to traverse anything above class 3"
I've been offroad many, many times. I drive an AWD. If you took time to actually read before spouting off, you'd discover that I've lived a rural lifestyle all my life and have made plenty of compromises.
"Wait, I'm supposed to buy or keep a car, LOSING MONEY DOING SO? Is that really your argument?"
OK, well you remember than when your house floods or is destroyed by the ever increasingly strong storms and you lose EVERYTHING ... wow, how economical WAS your (and everyone else like you) choice?
"Oh, it was an "environmentalist" like you. Someone who is too short-sighted and petty to actually know anything."
How do you know? Did you MEET them?
Mate, I've been working in this field for 20-plus years as an educator and an activist. Believe me, I'm neither short-sighted nor petty. I'm honest. Are you?
"As I wrote, none of you complain when you're stuck in the snow and I have to come rescue you"
Not me, mate. I have a AWD. I can rescue myself. Plus I'm in the Southern hemisphere. We'll see how much good that SUV does you when the Greenland ice sheet slides off into the North Atlantic Current.
