| Not sure why the downvoting. This may come across as cynical but it's also realistic. Climate change reminds me a lot of dieting. People say they want to do something about it, but in reality they don't truly want it because they can't tolerate the sacrifices required. So we speak in aspirational tones: "I really should lose some weight", "I should eat better", "I should exercise more", and then we turn around and go back to doing the same things as before. Only with climate change we're fighting that at the societal level. The only solution is to correct incentives. Ideally that would mean: tax bad
behaviour, subsidize good behaviour, and eliminate barriers to change. But of those, only the last is possible, because the first two require government action that no one actually wants to take because, again, people aspire to thwart climate change but don't actually want to make the necessary sacrifices to do anything about it. And that last option, eliminating barriers, comes down to technology by making it cheaper and easier to not dump CO2 into the atmosphere. |