> you might say that this is unrealistic, but for the government to do anything about pollution we needed hundreds of millions of people to protest Hundreds of

> you might say that this is unrealistic, but for the government to do anything about pollution we needed hundreds of millions of people to protest Hundreds of millions? The organizers of the biggest climate strikes (September 2019) estimated 7.6 million globally, and that's being generous. It's vastly cheaper, easier and more popular to enforce companies to reduce their pollution from their own funds than to pay to do it for them.