So look at the drug war, war on terrorism, money laundering sanctions, international tax evasion measures. The US and EU basically force the world to comply.

Imagine the EU and US are fully on board and say Australia decides no. What would happen to the Australian economy if they suddenly were barred from trading the dollar and euro. Australia is a big country and would be on the US/EU side. Imagine if Mexico or Croatia tried that. No chance.

Extreme? We did that to Russia during the Ukraine invasion.

This isn’t difficult. They just don’t care enough.

Simple physics demands that this use less energy.

E = mv^2/2.

Say cars are 10x the weight and drive 2x the speed of an electric bike. That’s 40x energy.

Additionally, bikes are more likely to have less erratic go/stop behavior, so even more efficient. For example, I’m much more careful to coast on a bike than a car because it’s my energy.

Why? This is a perfect opportunity to burn more of the forest without worrying about rain!

We will soon succeed in the extermination of one of the most destructive and violent species to exist on earth!

Advocates, largely driven by tribal activists along the Klamath River, have been pushing for these dams to be decommissioned for more than 20 years

I hope they are actively involved. Growing up, I was repeatedly taught how American indigenous people were much better with nature than we were. Then I was taught how we actively ignore their advice. Maybe it’s time to listen.

If they didn’t sell us back our water, what would we do?! Install pipes and do it cheaper without plastic?!?

But the suburbian dream

Sadly, big companies truly do not care. I was part of a net-zero project at my company (major polluter/CO2 emitter) and it is getting cut right now. I joined in hopes of helping fix it, but I simply can’t fight endless bureaucracy and rich people.

I can only speak for my project, but it’s not even just the CEO/board in my case. Mid-levels burned so much money that the project became completely infeasible (ie. negative return and scaling would make it worse).

It’s almost like people could just drink from cups…

Please don’t hurt me. I know it’s radical.

This I can get behind. It seems fallacious to believe that my choices don’t contribute to global warming, but equally wrong to believe that companies haven’t forced my hand.

This reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy, which I hadn’t considered before. This is an example when a major company absolutely forced me to make bad environmental decisions. Public transport was literally destroyed, forcing more cars on the road.

A while ago, I did a rough calculation that we could create floating islands from tying plastic bottles together. My calculation accounted for enough dirt for trees (several meters of dirt) and enough land to grow vegetables and such.

Accounting for food and housing needs, it was like 10k people from Europe’s plastic bottle waste for a year.

Personally, I think something like Netherlands dikes would work in many places.

Not sure how to deal with the heat though. Unfortunately heat is thermodynamically useless without a sink. Space is a bad sink. Deep ocean maybe.

Personally, I think we should plan for hot world and try to reduce emissions. I have very little faith in decarbonization efforts.

I have connections to inner energy company circles that work in renewables. When they get drunk, they openly admit to green washing. Unless governments seriously address this with sanctions and legal actions, it will never happen.

It’s like clogging your toilet. Unclogging it sucks, but it’s your fault. I don’t see this being fixed without serious uncomfortable painful corrective action. Governments don’t seem interested in that.

I found Mac completely unusable for software engineering. Additionally, I hate when coworkers use it because the Shell scripts get messed up

Wow. France is already on fire. Do politicians really want more?