Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientists originally thought

Re:Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientis... by criddell on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:58PM (#30518416)

The small handful of people have to answer to their constituents and voters are hostile to anything that will raise taxes or lower their quality of life today.

That might change if things get bad enough, but by then it's probably too late for anything but a technological miracle.

Non-democratic countries (like China and Russia) have a better chance of making the changes because there it truly is the case that a small number of people can bring about change.

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Re:Climate change is hitting the planet faster than scientis... by wbsss4412 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:08PM (#30518575)

Explicitly raising taxes would be very unpopular, but there were plenty of things I listed that would get minimal pushback from the public at large.

No one cares if UPS delivery trucks are electric. Very few people are policy wonks and will pay attention to changes in FHA bureaucracy.

Voters have very limited bandwidth and attention. Most of what the federal government does, it does on its own initiative, with opposition from select special interests.

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