> than the people running the country. This attitude and its variants with different scapegoats really irks me. Let's say that in 1980 all the world's governme

> than the people running the country. This attitude and its variants with different scapegoats really irks me. Let's say that in 1980 all the world's governments and businesses conspired and implemented measures to get close to 0 carbon emissions by 2010. For the moment let's ignore the most dire issues[0] and just focus on the economic cycle. Do you honestly think that they could have stayed in power in the face of a severe economic depression with no end in sight? Even in non-democracies such policies would be political suicide. [0]: lack of fertilizer, labor demand of non-mechanized agriculture, breakdown of the food supply chain