>Are we going to resign ourselves to see our home be destroyed? It's not going to be destroyed. This 'extinction rebellion' stuff is not true at all. In less t

>Are we going to resign ourselves to see our home be destroyed? It's not going to be destroyed. This 'extinction rebellion' stuff is not true at all. In less than a year you will never ever hear about that again. Al gore wrote an excellent article explaining the damage that climate alarmism and even his own poor predictions have done for the cause. It read legitimately that he is concerned about climate change and we do need to make changes. He is right and it's good on him to reflect on his mistakes and want to be better. > I have to suppress the feeling of anguish about the future to continue functioning in my daily life. Many other bigger issues than climate change to also worry about. The better thing to do is to not be concerned with or fearful of anything outside of your control. >How do we get the people in power to take the bare minimum of actions necessary to prevent the worst? Take Canada for example. We implemented a carbon tax and have some pretty severe consequences for it. Mind you, oil was already taxed about 100% for 'road taxes' and such. Tacking on an extra 20% tax isn't going to make huge changes, in fact it's very likely it's overtaxed and they won't actually gain any extra tax money. The government collects a pretty significant amount of money under the banner of oil taxes. To do what though? Build roads? I've seen the roads lately... they are terrible. The Carbon tax does not affect usage. Oil is an inelastic commodity whose price doesnt affect usage. So lets say the carbon tax is meant to help with the cause of climate change. It doesn't in of itself. How about using the collected money in a way that benefits climate change? That isn't even happening. There's no benefits toward insulating homes or buying solar panels. Or really anything. There is a 'tax benefit' for buying an EV but the cut off is intentionally put so low that virtually no EV cars qualify. So frankly if our goal is to do something to benefit climate change... we haven't done anything. People think we are doing something and that's worse than doing nothing. So what should we actually be doing? Here's a list from my municipality's proposal. It's not approved or anything, still a work in progress. Walkable neighbourhoods? So major redesign and reconstruction of the entire city? More public transit? No mention of converting these away from diesel. ban fossil fuel vehicles from the city? ban use of concrete and wood from being used in construction? circular economy of regenerative prosperity? I dont even understand this one. Ban agricultural lands from city and convert them to carbon capture? improve community resilience? I dont understand this one neither. I look at the list and they are at best thought out at the highest level only. How do you propose destruction of entire neighbourhoods and redesign to be walkable AND not use concrete or wood in the reconstruction? How about we just do the obvious stuff like single-payer solar panels, house insulation, ban ICE, no taxes on EVs, build grid scale batteries to store the energy produced from solar panels on every building.