They can have vigilantes burn down little free libraries, and make it relatively hard to find out about content.
It's not just a capitalism problem; communist societies have a real history of ignoring pollution as well.
*For those who toady up to the rich and their religious power structure
Success is far from guaranteed. But doom is in no way inevitable. I'll be fighting for every tenth of a degeee
There is coal, oil, and gas in the ground. There are forests yet standing. We're too late for no change — but not too late to make a very big difference in the outcome.
No matter how many men you put in front of standing desks, or how fancy an AI you give them, they can't make an egg. Clearly should be many millions per egg.
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A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you're talking about the kind of money his backers hope to loot
I don't know for sure what's going to happen in the future, but we have a lot of power as individuals to put our thumb on the scale in favor of more action instead of less.
Thing is, how bad it gets is still very much a human decision. Just because we haven't done enough yet doesn't mean we can't.
They're not explicit, but when you see for example, Rick Jeffares having run for office and never managed to get a single dark-skinned person standing with him, it's blindingly obvious what's going on.
They won't, but talking with your neighbors, building consensus, and changing the rules of society might.