As a species, we may be too stupid to save ourselves.
Hey, no worries Mate! This is going to be wonderful drama and commercial communication is going to sell megatons of wonderful profitable ads.
The plan: We are going to wait through 11 of the 12 remaining years doing nothing about our impending doom so as to build suspense. Also, to make sure there is no funding available for those pinko environmentalists we will spend Bazillions developing excellent hypersonic missiles and stuff to improve on wiping out our species even without the threat of a Great Extinction event. And when combined TeeVee viewership numbers peak in the eleventh month, SHAZAM! Scientists and engineers who we currently do not listen to will pull a miraculous remedy out of their underfunded and misdirected research and save the world all happy. Or maybe FSM calls us home by way of rapture, or the more reliable famine and pestilence route. Whatever. The important thing is to put out trust in people who want to tidy up the world by acquiring everything for themselves.
Thatâs how it usually works! Sadly itâs mainly due to the âsmartâ rich folks. Granted us dumb poor folk can chose alternatives. Sadly we about as dumb as the smart folks. Look at all the car makes having to drop econo cars from the lineup because folks only want SUVs. Just pasted a Ford Raptor the other day after an unusual December snow in Raleigh and though, well the once every 5 year or so snow you may need that vehicle for. I bet even if you go offroading itâs for fun and still only 1% or less of the actual need for that truck.
Ironically, he flew on a coal-fired Trump Airlines biplaneâŚ
Hopefully, enough countries will carry through with this - quickly - and reduce demand for the fossil fules that keep the Saudis, Russians, Kuwaitis, Poles, etc. going. The US seems to be the real problem, though. Our oposition has an almost religious character to it. I mean, itâs an article of faith in the GOP that climate change is a myth or something not to worry about, so itâs much less about economic reality. Not to say there arenât a lot of economic issues and likely pushback from people affected, but these can be addressed partly if we focus on resolving income inequality and how these changes with put a disproportionate burdon on people living outside of urban areas - and this is a challenge thatâs not just restricted to the US (and, obviously, France). Still, breaking through the almost psychotic mindset of rightwingers in the US is probably the most intractactable challenge since it has nothing to do with economics or real self interest.
California (worldâs fourth largest economy) will lead the way.
âhow it usually worksâ will be the death of us all.
Letâs hope. I will not be the US federal gov anytime soon.