It seems Tim has not been a part of a large violent protest: even with hundreds of thousands of people hitting the streets, the modern approach to solving that

It seems Tim has not been a part of a large violent protest: even with hundreds of thousands of people hitting the streets, the modern approach to solving that is to pick and prosecute a hundred or so people. Bureaceacy can deal with that, and are you willing to risk being that person? Most middle class people, which are a huge majority in developed world, aren't. Article also overestimates how many people are willing to fight the future war and somebody else's war. A political solution should, just like Tim does, recognize that the Global North has benefitted greatly from industrialization with high pollution, and that, if they want the Global South to reduce pollution without having an opportunity for similar fast progress based on oil/coal, they should be covering all the costs of cleaner energy to ensure similarly fast progress without the pollution. Until they do, stance like India's should not come as a surprise.