Sigh, it just takes us sooo long to do things like this, and even then it's half measures. It's not the best or most useful example, but some cities in Asia/Ch

Sigh, it just takes us sooo long to do things like this, and even then it's half measures. It's not the best or most useful example, but some cities in Asia/China almost overnight banned not only the sale but operation of gas powered mopeds/motorcycles within city limits. And all we can do is ask people nicely to stop buying gas powered cars, and wait 15 years for the fleet half-life to happen. Yes, yes, authoritarian regimes can do lots of things, and bad things, etc. But they seem better at addressing a low level growing problem that no individual has the will to change. Do you remember when the HD tv transition happened in the USA and how long that took? Germany turned it off with ~1 year of notice -- the logic was "everyone waits until the last minute anyway, so let's just do it now". Sigh.