Breaking News: 10/10 campaigns make the climate change skeptics happy

Question: What is the net effect of all the good people making real changes to their life to reduce their carbon footprint?

Answer: They make the lives of the majority climate skeptics easier, cheaper and more smug than ever before.

The grass roots approach only works if the laggards change their ways. We live in a supply and demand free-market capitalist society. If some people use less of a resource, the resource becomes cheaper and easier to acquire. That is to say:

1. There is more space on roads
2. Flights become cheaper
3. Electricity, gas and water become cheaper
4. etc

Of course the rate of change in prices will vary (I suspect reducing water consumption has zero effect on supply). What is for sure is that the conscientious are being laughed at by the world's hill billies.

There is a caveat to this argument of course. If enough people reduce their consumption then then for instance an airline, gas, water company might collapse, which will reduce competition and increase prices. Of course this situation will mean it will be easier to make more profit, which will further entrench the status quo.

Let's not be naive - grass roots action is admirable but we have to keep lobbying for real regulatory change.

It does help to take action despite all this though, at least we get to feel sane again in the process. The attitude of the skeptics really is a thing of wonderment - how do these people think the world works?