Granted "westerner" was the wrong word: I meant rich nations, which are responsible for almost all of the historical emissions. "Social ownership doesn’t solve

Granted "westerner" was the wrong word: I meant rich nations, which are responsible for almost all of the historical emissions. "Social ownership doesn’t solve climate change," I skipped a few steps there: the reason we can't just stop overconsumption is because that would effectively stop and reverse economic growth. No growth just doesn't work without restructuring the economy.