This is a fantasy. That's the problem. It will not happen. Not even close.
> you are caught in some kind of thought trap
The ones caught in a thought trap are people who actually believe things such as actually being able to reduce world-wide emissions by 50% in a few dozen years. It's impossible. Truly impossible. It will not happen. No matter what the US and Europe might do to destroy their entire economies.
The truth is uncomfortable. I get it. It is far easier to get onboard a religion than to challenge it and understand reality.
All I can say is: Remember this conversation and, in ten and twenty years, check what you thought you knew against future reality.
I have been doing this now for about twenty years. So far, none of what the merchants of fear and marketers of (fake) solutions has aligned with reality. In fact, this profitable cult goes back farther than that, with guys like Al Gore (Inconvenient Truth) pushing various end-of-the-world predictions as far back the 1980's and, arguably, as far back as the 1970's. These people pushed bullshit like the planet facing "full ecosystem collapse" in 8 to 10 years; with different forms of this delusion promoted in the '80's, '90's, 2000's, etc.
This is a fantasy. That's the problem. It will not happen. Not even close.
> you are caught in some kind of thought trap
The ones caught in a thought trap are people who actually believe things such as actually being able to reduce world-wide emissions by 50% in a few dozen years. It's impossible. Truly impossible. It will not happen. No matter what the US and Europe might do to destroy their entire economies.
The truth is uncomfortable. I get it. It is far easier to get onboard a religion than to challenge it and understand reality.
All I can say is: Remember this conversation and, in ten and twenty years, check what you thought you knew against future reality.
I have been doing this now for about twenty years. So far, none of what the merchants of fear and marketers of (fake) solutions has aligned with reality. In fact, this profitable cult goes back farther than that, with guys like Al Gore (Inconvenient Truth) pushing various end-of-the-world predictions as far back the 1980's and, arguably, as far back as the 1970's. These people pushed bullshit like the planet facing "full ecosystem collapse" in 8 to 10 years; with different forms of this delusion promoted in the '80's, '90's, 2000's, etc.