Sometimes correlation does equal causation. The saying is "correlation doesn't always equal causation." But there are times it does. I'm on the side that climate change is caused by us. And we need to reduce. The problem is so many things run on fossil fuels it hard to cut down on it at this moment, and transition to green energies is a slow process. And many people are not going to change their lifestyles or drop their conveniences.
Maybe people are hypocritical, but I think sometimes you have to be a hypocrite if the end results is beneficial like a better more green situation and push companies towards more green tech and stop them from junk science. We are hypocrites ya, but we benefit. And that hypocrite push by people will eventually make us not hypocrites anymore once we have more green tech available to us because of that push. Sometimes you can't be that perfect model citizen of being consistent and need to break that depending on the context of the situation.
You're right, the standard wording of the statement is "correlation does not necessarily equal causation.' i.e. they're not mutually exclusive. But I don't think I was saying that, either. But thing is ... even so, your opinion that climate change, to the extent it genuinely exists, is caused by human activity, is still just your opinion. And you're entitled to it. Know who else is entitled to theirs?
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