QatzelOk wrote:Pollution mitigating strategies so far
1. "Let's work with the stakeholders in the Auto and Oil industries, and try to find a solution that works for everyone. "
2. **Things continue to deteriorate**
3. "Let's invest in new experimental technologies that some of our stakeholders can sell us at exorbitant prices. "
4. **Someone writes a thread about removing CO2 with new tech**
5. **Others suggest working with big stakeholders, like the Auto and Oil sectors**
6. ** ? ***
It's really not all it's cracked up to be.
That's not really fair. This is not the first time that humanity has been facing a seemingly "unprecedented global" issue that we have not managed to mitigate, in some cases, fix, the issue.
We hunted whales to near extinction, harm the ozone layer with fluorocarbons, spill lead into the air we breathe and many many many other examples. Granted, we "mitigated those", not necessarily went back to "pristine earth" but that is not the goal, it has never been the goal. When any species' population booms, it affects their environment. When algae bloom in lakes, it might very well suffocate and kill the fish in that lake. When grasshopper's population boom, it might consume all the green and disrupt herbivores (and their predators).
The reality is, the changes that we are talking about are multigenerational, it might take decades, centuries and perhaps even millennia for the worse consequences of climate change to become readily apparent.
If you want the buy-in of a large population of people and their enthusiastic support, you need persuasion and a viable alternative to maintain a similar degree of quality of life. Shaming does not seem to work, screaming does not seem to work and certainly, suggesting that people drop their Mercedes, leave their house, and move to a cave in the forest and eat mulch, is not likely to work either. Tesla has a better chance of making the combustion engine go extinct than Greta does.