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.

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

No; it’s a fairly distant thing with there being some aircraft design happening.

It’s not a “next tuesday thing”

Ammonia, steel, and some petrochemicals could be moved much sooner.

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.

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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.

See the article.

Politics tends to not work and not work and suddenly work once you have sufficient power.

In the US:

• There were occasional quiet warnings of the problem to politicians starting in the 1950s.
• In the 1980s we got to the point of being able to get testimony in front of congress, but didn’t have a single vote for action
• In the 1990s, we had only a handful of politicians who would be willing to vote for any kind of meaningful action
• In the 2000s we had legislation pass the house, but die in Senate because there were only ~40/100 votes in favor there
• In 2021 we actually got carrots-only legislation passed into law

We’re not where we need to be yet, but it’s clear that you can actually get something that way.

Doesn’t help that the Internet Archive is hosted in a cool-looking building in San Francisco

And that means Liberal, no matter how neutral they might be.

He was

director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office

For context, US emissions are about 6 billion tons per year. There are real reasons to disagree with Gaza policy, but the greenhouse gas emissions you’re talking are quite tiny by comparison

They won’t, but talking with your neighbors, building consensus, and changing the rules of society might.

It’s not just a capitalism problem; communist societies have a real history of ignoring pollution as well.