Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 22 2022 04:03pm)
But that's part of the crux: who will get to decide "what needs to be done"? Elected officials? Experts? Citizen councils? Even if one were willing to give up on the democratic process in favor of climate action, this choice is not trivial or straight-forward.
The last part of your reply seems to dodge the issue. You're making it sound as if the main problem standing in the way of climate action is that a bunch of nefarious corporations stop governments from implementing policy which is actually popular, or would be popular if not for decades of big oil propaganda. I can absolutely see why you would like to frame the problem in this fashion, it's really convenient for someone from your political corner.
But that's not actually the case. Any countermeasures which go far enough to really stop global warming (and not just silence the conscience of the green-minded) would clearly be highly unpopular. You don't have to take my word for it, it is the veteran climate activists themselves which are stressing that to stop climate change, we must drastically reduce our consumption, our individual mobility, live in much smaller houses, eat far less meat and so on and on.
That's true now because we are 50 years passed when we should have started solving this problem. This entire time those nefarious corporations have absolutely engaged in a multi billion dollar propaganda war.
We are now so far gone that it would require incredibly drastic measures to stop which would probably be pretty unpopular.
Anthropomorphic climate change was well supported as early as the 1970s.. It was 1st hypothesized in the late 1800s that increased carbon dioxide emissions would warm the planet And By the early nineties it was beyond all rational dispute
Still solving this problem isn't as complicated as people think it is. This period building out public infrastructure on electric lines For mass transit powered by nuclear plants For base load and wind solar and geothermal for excess load Along with mass reclamation of wetlands and forests rests because they are the most efficient methods of carbon capture and the problem is basically solved.
The problem is this is a pretty expensive order and people like their cars like their cars. The solution isn't complicated but it does require implementation on a global scale and nobody wants to do it without a guarantee that everyone else will also do it
This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Oct 22 2022 03:13pm