@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
Quote:climate is changing) and it is futile to try to change it.
If America had accepted the idea of huiman-induced climate change sooner, we would have had a chance at reducing its magnitude. But successivef US government either denied it or didn't care much about it, and now it's too late. I kind of resent the US for that.
It's not actually too late to try. It's never too late to try. The problem is that people the world over just don't really want to make the personal sacrifices it would take to minimize their industrial footprints.
They don't want to give up driving and reforest their cities. They don't want to start removing pavement from the ground so organic life can grow back where it's been displaced. They don't want to commit to real, difficult, low-profit innovations that cost lots of effort and render little monetary return.
So, like you, they see futility and seek to blame other countries, governments, corporations, etc. instead of just biting the bullet and making difficult sacrifices like quitting driving and drastically reducing their energy use in all possible ways, including reducing/eliminating most travel, most climate control, and find innovative ways of using natural sunlight/wind/etc., such as hang-drying laundry, opening windows and using fans instead of air-conditioning, wearing warm clothes indoors in winter and putting up thicker insulation in certain rooms to minimize energy use for heating, etc.
If everyone was reforming their personal habits and households/workplaces to be completely regenerative of natural land-cover and thus climate, there would be a chance the climate would stabilize; but like smokers who can't quit, they just keep on abusing the planet and feeling confused about why they can't make changes that would save their lives.
