The real practical solutions are trivial, the politics are not. It's a collective action problem, where the US is one of the actors.

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shrubby 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yup.

Plenty of solutions, but politicians will never make it happen.

We calculated that capping personal emissions (mostly doable via peer pressure should we get this moving as normal people) to some top 1 percent 25 metric carbon ton and going plant based would get us net-zero while additionally getting rid of the zillionaire problem and adding extra 50-100 gigaton rewilding effect to the table.

With no bigger than marginal effect on anyone's QOL.

But we're SOL as the propaganda machines of the zillionaires keep dividing normal people to fake dichotomies.

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chickenimprint 4 hours ago | parent [-]

No, there's really just a few select politicians standing in the way. Governments around the world have implemented tons of policies to attempt to address the crisis, but unless every country participates, it's economically suicidal. Carbon-intensive industries can simply move to the US, strengthening them, while those countries attempting to carry the burden of preventing climate change will be equally affected by looming disasters.

	▲	shrubby 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The same root cause everywhere . The zillionaires threatening to flee from the taxes. Annex Greenlands, Ukraines... Taking children to pedo islands. Once we'll wake up to the fact that almost every human becomes corrupt when treated with enough power we'll grok this. And provide mental health services to the zillionaires and also they'll be happier. Nobody wants the future we're getting.