Arguably it's rational (though selfish) to think like this.
Life is short, there's no point freezing and living off leaves for the next few decades when you'll be old in the blink of an eye anyway
Life is short, there's no point freezing and living off leaves for the next few decades when you'll be old in the blink of an eye anyway
Is it? We are not talking about screwing the climate for the people who will come in 200 years, right? In the last decades we have been saying "if we don't change the trend, your children will most likely die because of the climate change".
Is it rational to be 30 and not care about the fact that we will be screwed long before we reach the age of retirement?
Setting aside the fact that even if I was so selfish to care about my personal legacy, I'd want the world around long enough to learn about it...
there's no point freezing and living off leaves for the next few decades
I don't think the ask here is so unreasonable. It's disingenuous to frame it this way.