[Balgair]

> Educating people about these issues will take decades (& it will be too late). Only way forward could be if some constant external pressure is put on their governments using agreements/accords (like Paris Agreement) and some system is setup which will monitor issues like plastic management and carbon-emission. If countries are not following some standard they should be penalized.

The history of CFCs[0] is a very good sketch as to how these issues play out. Granted, there were very good and cheap-ish alternatives to CFCs. Still, using CFCs as a guideline indicates that real action is about 10-20 years away (~2030 to 2040). Going to Wikipedia and putting in the year 2040[1], we see that large parts of the EU will have banned petrol burning cars by that year and that space based solar power should be coming online.

So, yay!? These things take time, but don't be discouraged. We are making progress and I feel that we will do it 'in time'. We need to work hard and be vocal to try to accelerate these timelines, of course, but have faith in your fellow man's intelligence and labor (please ignore that whole Daylight Savings Time insanity, though).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon#History

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2040

EDIT: I figured I should include a link to the year 2030 as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2030