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by perfunctory 2508 days ago
Hm, I don't think we are actually in much of a disagreement. Maybe you are misreading my comment. When I say "Eventually, the solution will have to come from the government" I don't mean that we should just sit around and wait for the government to "bail us out". Of course we should all do what we can. And of course we should invest in R&D and develop new technologies.

But I don't have any illusion that 100% of people will suddenly (voluntarily) stop flying or consuming unnecessary crap. Or that "free market" will somehow solve the problem all by itself. We need a WW2 level of economic and political mobilisation. But that won't happen by itself. We need to make it happen. And the best way to do it at this stage I believe is radical activism (e.g. https://xrebellion.org). And we know from history that it works. Think about civil rights movement etc.

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I guess I misread your comment. I agree that most of the people will not change their habits and we need to engage our governments too.