“Our politics co-evolved with a century of fossil fuels, and so a huge portion of our regulations still favor the incumbent, which is fossil fuels,”
Hey Bull, one striking point made in the vid below is how "personal responsibility" was an actual thing - a manipulation. A deflection. Nothing like tapping into that old Catholic Guilt. I forget the stats but industry far surpasses (collective)individual Behaviors and the 1% have a huge task ahead (over 50 fold) when measuring individual carbon footprints - or in accounting one might say reconcilin' da books.
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self ? an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself... C.H.