You see even if you had power and wanted to do something about ecological exhaustion (not just warming, but resource and land overuse, biodiversity loss, pollu

You see even if you had power and wanted to do something about ecological exhaustion (not just warming, but resource and land overuse, biodiversity loss, pollution, etc), you're going to run into hordes of people who build their happiness in life on consumption and/or doing business selling that consumption. But effective countermeasures must reduce the absolute amount of consumption, whereas the only acceptable policies in practice are those that shift consumption elsewhere, hence no progress on this topic (absolute demand rises). Curiously related and posted here today https://blog.datawrapper.de/fair-share-resources/ https://blog.datawrapper.de/fair-share-resources/ (1) And don't even try policing behavior w.r.t. that goal. For that our species is just too broken in the head. Really the best shot is a complex system of supply side regulation, education, technological innovation with a dash of psychological and cultural influencing and hope. Really the better question to ask for oneself by now might be how to live with the knowledge that we're running off the cliff (with careful optimism "it might not become as bad" in the back of the mind). Humanity learns by catastrophe... sometimes, a bit. Or take solace in the fact that modern civilization is just a blip on geological timelines and it will all recover after we're gone (until the next ape rises). (1) which cites https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00044-4/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...