They’re mostly not blasting it directly; they’re selling fossil fuels for others to blast. Changing how you commute or heat your home helps change social norms around those and lowers the rate of emissions
Ideally, would be both. And it likely means getting Congress on board.
They’re smoking money. The raison d’être of the Heritage Foundation is to promote the interests of the wealthy over those of the rest of us.
There’s a contagion effect, where news of school shootings inspires others to attempt the same.
It does, but importantly, it’s fiction. So it raises some (but not all ) of the relevant issues, but doesn’t necessarily present a realistic view of how things will play out.
More would involve some serious spoilers.
You don’t need to name-call here. It’s actually important to not just require that everybody do stuff, but have some people go first to make the case that it works well.
I can’t control your spending, but it’s a really effective outreach tool.
Sulfur dioxide added to the stratosphere might cool the world for a few years. They’re selling offsets though, so they give people permission to add CO₂ which causes the world to warm for hundreds of thousands of years
There’s a real problem with that.
Yep, but district heating and cooling is rare; it exists in a few major cities and a few university and corporate campuses.
Those are important, but the act of doing things like installing solar panels, or a heat pump changes minds — and when you do it, others around you see and imitate.
Politics tends to not work and not work and suddenly work once you have sufficient power.
In the US:
We’re not where we need to be yet, but it’s clear that you can actually get something that way.
They won’t, but talking with your neighbors, building consensus, and changing the rules of society might.
They can have vigilantes burn down little free libraries, and make it relatively hard to find out about content.
It’s not just a capitalism problem; communist societies have a real history of ignoring pollution as well.
*For those who toady up to the rich and their religious power structure
Success is far from guaranteed. But doom is in no way inevitable. I’ll be fighting for every tenth of a degeee
I’m not saying that either. But we are at the point where it takes people showing neighbors the changes that everybody needs to make.