Who could've known that abolishing the carbon tax, supporting the auto industry, cancelling the electric vehicle mandate, and subsidizing the oil industry would not lead to success in meeting those targets? It's not as if we've all had thirty years to find out that getting to "net zero" is a difficult challenge that would require actual leadership in the right direction.
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Seriously. Can we stop fucking subsidizing oil? Solar is cheap now. The free market would handle the transition if we were weren’t giving them tax dollars.
Free market? Sounds like communism to me.
Not only is solar dirt cheap and getting better (thanks China!) but battery technology is improving so drastically that any surplus energy we have can be easily stored for those (sometimes literal) rainy days. Wasn't there a town in China that produced such a glut of electricity that they were exporting it to neighboring communities for free?
The problem is the massive opposition to all this by oil and automakers, and as time passed the Libertarians and worldwide conservatives all joined forced against the 'bleeding heart liberal/Politically Correct/Woke' forces to basically make it a point of their identity that they are as opposed to the environment and anything to help humanity. It is how we get people like RFK Jr. who makes a point of patronizing a burger joint that fries their stuff in beef tallow and uses disposable plastic straws (those straws have their uses for some people, but most people don't really need them. I almost never use straws myself).
No one is serious about climate change anymore in politics.
Anti-woke politics in America have given complacent people carte blanche to ignore the problem at best, actively fight it at worst.
The new great dying has already begun, but we're just barely getting started.
This is why I sometimes think 'should I give up bad habits X or Y?' part of me does, but the other part reminds me that my generation (elder millennials) are probably the last that will reach old age.