I think one reason that a lot of the public doesn’t believe in climate change is that those that say they do don’t really act like they do. Disrupting commerce and traffic and forcing the police to arrest you- that’s putting your money where your mouth is, whether you agree with it or not you have to give them that. It’s consistency.
None of this “resistance” is doing anything to fight global warming. We already have plenty of editorials abstractly saying we need to do something; a million more won’t help.
We need to build a cheap way to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. That way we can stop global warming without requiring global agreement. Global political agreement to slow down consumption will just never happen.
This is a problem which is uniquely difficult to engineer your way out of, since any such machine requires energy to run, and where are you going to get that energy without burning carbon?
But.. that only makes sense if you’ve already replaced fossil fuels with carbon free energy everywhere else (with rare exceptions such as maybe air travel). Otherwise you’re wasting energy by converting carbon to co2 and then using more energy to convert it back to carbon.
