[mrguyorama]

Here in America, we've had the option to vote for more sustainable and green options since Jimmy Carter, but "oh no my economy" is cited as the reason why it has been categorically rejected time after time. How can you blame the government for doing what people asked of it? People voted to not do the right things, for a multitude of reasons, often including "someone (or some news show) told me it would hurt me"

[rcarr]

So then government should make tougher laws surrounding the media. Break up empires such as Murdoch’s. Make it mandatory for media organisations to be co-operatives or some other such structure that disallows ownership by billionaires or corporations who can use them to push their own agenda. I’m not saying these are the solutions, but there are solutions out there to the problems that aren’t just the status quo. We just have to find them and be brave enough to try them. And yes I agree with you that citizens must also take responsibility for continually electing corrupt leaders.

[taolegal]

People vote for energy that doesn't impoverish them. That's fine in my book. Jimmy Carter was a disaster and the idea that solar just needed more investment was and still is a sick joke.

At the end of the day, "being green" is tantamount to depriving people of cheap, reliable energy and thus destroying living standards. I don't blame them for choosing against impoverishment.