I think we’ve already demonstrated our willingness to change, which is to say, we’ve already demonstrated how unwilling we are, as a whole, to change.
Isn’t much else to it. We will act too late, too little, and we will have some extremely hard times to endure at some point.
My only regret is that I will have brought children to this world to eat the consequences… 😩
So happy my partner and I decided to never have children. Humanity is doomed.
When you say “we”, what I hear is “conservatives”. Normal people are willing to change. Conservatives are not. And since they protect the billionaire class, we are all stuck.
Conservatives are killing us. They know this and mock us for being upset about it.
Sorry, gonna hard disagree there.
The first off-ramp we had to get off of fossil fuels was nuclear energy. It wasn’t the conservatives who blocked that exit.
If nuclear energy buildup in the 1990s had followed the trend of the 1970s and 1980s, we could have kept CO2 below 400 ppm.
The three groups who conspired against that decarbonization were: the coal lobby, anti-nuclear activists and labour unions (because coal unions were strong back then).
Only one of those groups were the rich conservatives.
I don’t even think its fair to blame it all in conservatives. Our governments are failing us as a whole
Our government in the U.S. has been some flavor of conservative this whole time. Neo-liberals are conservatives. They are smarter and better dressed, but they are still just conservatives who serve the ultra-wealthy.
If we want progress, we need progressives.
Isn’t that tautological?
I will hit this wall if I continue to speed at it with 100 km/h…
Yes but what about
E N D L E S S
G R O W T H
weve tried nothing and were all out of ideas
We’re doing a lot more than nothing, but renewables aren’t yet growing fast enough to cause fossil fuel use to decline globally.
Every time we had a new energy source, we just added it to the mix. We always had to activly cut the usage of the old one to cause a decline. So renewables just can not grown fast enough to cause a decline in fossil fuels. They however can replace them, if we cut them in a smart way.
That’s not really true at all. Significant parts of the world have managed substitutions in recent decades, in particular the decline of coal use in the US and EU looks like replacement, rather than “adding to the mix” on a regional level, and neither part of the world is exporting coal to the places that are burning it.
What we do is a choice, not some inevitability of adding new energy sources to the mix.
Yeah but what about those poor billionairs?