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I don’t even see how that is the problem. It’s inertia, literally conservatives, corporate lobbying.
We’ve known what we need to do and have known for years but it requires change and different corps to profit so we never get anywhere. We need to move forward. According to science. Not to preserve existing business models and profits.
At this point I don’t see how regressing civilization even helps more than moving forward. We have the technology. We can rebuild it.
For example EVs are a small part of the problem. Yes, too little and too late but if we can stick to the 2035 phaseouts, the line starts heading in the right direction. Pretty much the entire developed world will have decreasing carbon emissions at that point. It’s nowhere near enough but at least we’d be headed by in the right direction. Think of it like being in huge debt. We still can’t make our minimum payments but at least we’re no longer adding more and more debt
And we already are in a place where birth rates are far below replacement value. It’ll take a while because humans live like 80 years but as the current large generations die off it will plateau and start dropping. Maybe uncomfortably quickly.