I just cannot accept your worldview. Who have you killed specifically? What an odd assertion.
For starters, some of the drought victims in Africa over the past 40 years. Some of those who died in the European heatwave of 2003, some of the Hurricane Katrina and Sandy victims, and such victims of superstorms around the world. It is the last “intensity-umph” of these extreme weather events to which AGW is expected to have contributed that does the most damage, the part AGW would have increased.
I’ve harmed some of the famine victims around the world, when the famines were linked to droughts and other harms expected by scientists of being caused by AGW. I’ve destroyed property of victims of floods, hurricanes, etc. I’ve destroyed winter crops in N. Mexico, due to increased strongly negative arctic oscillations (which AGW is theorized to be causing) bringing killing freezes there. Victims of the increased floods in Pakistan and India that killed people and destroyed crops. Victims of the increasing wildfires around the world. The land loss from rising seas (causing evacuations from small island states). Harm and death from disease spread from vectors moving into new globally warmed territories.
My part may have been extremely small, but I was party to all these.
The list of harms from AGW I’ve contributed to goes on and on and on. And will be much much greater in the future from my lifetime emissions of CO2, a portion of which can stay in the atmosphere for 1000s of years – wiping out perhaps over 2/3 of humanity over the course of the next 1000 years, perhaps more, probably not less, perhaps even the complete annihilation of humanity.
By 2050 there will be severe harm to food crops around the world from AGW (including in the U.S.), while now such harms are mainly in poor countries, where people are most vulnerable to food loss.
Then there are concomitant pollution harms I’ve contributed to – ocean acidification, acid rain, local pollution (in resource extraction, shipping, processing, disposal of products).
I said I had never had an abortion, but when I drove my ICE car (over the past 50 years) I was causing pollution that causes abortions (miscarriages) and many other health harms (which I came to understand more fully only some 20 years ago). I was very happy to be able to convince my husband last year to get a Chevy Volt. Tho we still burned about 29 gallons of gasoline last year, that was only a fraction of what we used to burn, putting emissions into the atmosphere, contributing to harm and death thru local pollution, regional pollution, and global warming; not to mention the harms from extraction and processing, the cancer alleys. I was happy to go on 100% wind-generated electricity 11 years ago, and to be getting solar this summer (which is more for a financial investment than environmental action, since we are already on 100% wind).
I’m also happy all these things I’ve done to reduce my harms and killings save us quite a bit of money without lowering our living standards, as we have reduced our GHG emissions by 60%+ below our 1990 level. It has also taken financial stress off our marriage. But that’s not why I’ve done them – it was to reduce my harm and killing. The monetary savings are only the icing on the cake, a bonus I actually did not expect…I had thought 23 years ago when I started down this path I’d have to sacrifice to reduce my harms. But it was just the opposite – either immediate savings, no net cost, or return on investment in the short or long run and continued savings. Only a very few things we’ve done have cost more, and even then there may have been some benefits that outweighed the costs…like buying more expensive organic foods when available (synthetic fertilizers and pesticides doing environmental harms that harm people), which may have had some minor health or nutritional benefits for us.
All I can say is, thank you, Jesus, for being my redeemer and constant helper to help me find solutions, and for being my best friend.
