Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Mike McGrath rejected a spate of arguments against the plaintiffs — including that they lacked standing to bring the suit and that Montana’s contribution to climate change is negligible in a global context.
It’s not just in sparsely populated Montana, I’ve seen this ridiculous argument that excuses lax environmental codes because they are a small contribution to a global problem, in Vancouver BC of all places!
Mayor Ken Sim said he would vote against allowing natural gas “if banning it would have an impact.”
“Whether we like it or not, even if we shut down the city of Vancouver it won’t make a difference in decreasing the rate of change of worldwide temperatures,”
Ah the “drop in the ocean” fallacy. “We’re only a small part of the problem so we shouldn’t have to stop being part of the problem”. I see people on lemmy use this all the time when they want to justify doing things that are environmentally reckless.
I remember getting this concept from this (now ancient) reddit post
It’s not just in sparsely populated Montana, I’ve seen this ridiculous argument that excuses lax environmental codes because they are a small contribution to a global problem, in Vancouver BC of all places!
Ah the “drop in the ocean” fallacy. “We’re only a small part of the problem so we shouldn’t have to stop being part of the problem”. I see people on lemmy use this all the time when they want to justify doing things that are environmentally reckless.
I remember getting this concept from this (now ancient) reddit post