If Politicians and Scientists were actually...

If politicians and scientists were actually committed to cleaning up the world, wouldn't they just do it?

But instead, they set up punitive "carbon tax" rules about pollution which amount to taxes on the poor. When you have only money to burn wood that you found from fallen branches, and someone in Washington decides you aren't being clean enough, you basically are freezing in your house, or paying through the nose on taxes.

Meanwile, poor Greta. She suffers so, in her small carbon-materials boat which took factories more to build than a simple steel one. Or how it took four trips to pick her up from that virtue signalling vehicle. Or how most of the freeze-died food this bitch eats is actually made from disposable plastic packaging.
https://oilprice.com/The-Environment/Global-Warming/Greta-Thunbergs-Not-So-Little-Carbon-Footprint.html

These laws are basically the equivalent of having a water shortage, and instead of building a well, you decide to tell everyone that they can either not drink water or pay a huge tax. One of these saves the town. The other basically fleeces the public so some people get to die of thirst.

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To solve climate change and keep the current population levels as they are now we need to reduce our CO2 emissions by a factor of 6. this means basically reduce our energy use by 6 -> meaning basically freezing in winter eating no more meat , showering less often ... etc
there is no way i see this happening through a standard political system. The only way people will accept such drastic reductions is in a war context. Meaning we will have wars/ civil wars. This does not look good at all. But no politicians will tell you this. these guys are paid to tell people everything will be good, they will not be elected otherwise.

Or... you could build machines that could suck up carbon pollution. We already have air purifiers. I know that this can be done on a larger scale. The more energy-efficient these purifiers are built, the less strain on society. But wait, we already have such a device and it even uses no power plants. It's called a tree. If environmentalists are so concerned, why are there no calls to plant more trees?

Or... you could build machines that could suck up carbon pollution. We already have air purifiers. I know that this can be done on a larger scale.

by mid-1942 it was obvious that a vast array of pilot plants, laboratories, and manufacturing facilities would have to be constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers so that the assembled scientists could carry out their mission

In the fall of 1941 Harold C. Urey and Pegram visited England to attempt to set up a cooperative effort, and by 1943 a combined policy committee with Great Britain and Canada was established. In that year a number of scientists of those countries moved to the United States to join the project there.

Several physical methods to do this were intensively explored, and two were chosen—the electromagnetic process developed at the University of California, Berkeley, under Ernest Orlando Lawrence and the diffusion process developed under Urey at Columbia University. Both of these processes, and particularly the diffusion method, required large, complex facilities and huge amounts of electric power to produce even small amounts of separated uranium-235.

Governments do diddly squat

The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion (equivalent to about $23 billion in 2019)