I disagree. Green politicians are gaining ground every day. Germany elected Greens, California elected Greens, EU is passing Green laws, maybe even Canada will start cutting CO2 emissions.
Voters are the ones electing Greens and voters passed Carbon taxes in many states and in Europe.
None of that conflicts with my statements. Greens get elected - and then they don’t even suggest, let alone really push for, the scope of changes that would actually be required to fight climate change.
Again, this is why Greta Thunberg has dismissed these folks - even the government ministers with official portfolio over climate change - as engaging in little but “blah blah blah.” They pass Green laws, but they’re all too weak to have a material impact. They pass carbon taxes (sometimes), but they’re all either too low or too poorly structured to matter.
That’s Smil’s point - they pass things that allow Green supporters (like yourself) to mistakenly believe they’re doing something significant, or even particularly useful, while failing to do any of the things that are necessary. The things that would have to be done in order to actually fight climate change enough to avoid a materially hotter world are things that are so costly that no political group is seriously putting forward.
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