this is what I believe is going to happen: survival of the richest.
Sure, we are pushing for renewable energies and some countries are even pushing for net zero emissions, but stats don't lie and we are still warming the world much faster than before ww2 (see picture) and most politicians seem to enjoy burying their heads in the sand, because its what their voters want. Where I live politicians talk about carbon sequestering and hydrogen cars, for example, but its always for an interview, with no follow up whatsoever.
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I'm not claiming authoritarian countries are better just for being authoritarian, they also need growth not to risk social unrest and their elites also want to get rich.
Oil dependency seems not to be anywhere near of being reduced and in some countries like the US and I'm assuming the oil producing countries there is simply no political will, because their budget depends on it. For maga gas means identity.
Some countries are heading in the right direction, more EVs are being produced and pushing for net zero, but it's a very slow transition that won't save the planet and I'm not even sure these countries represent most of the human population.
We are simply too many and too greedy: everyone wants to consume.
It is completely unrealistic to expect humans not to be greedy, or to subscribe to left leaning philosophies of human love, human rights, the right to a home or distribution of wealth. In the end we all are monkeys, more now than ever, given how the far right has become so mainstream. It is simply what people want.
So the rich ones, the one who can afford air conditioning, not to rent, an electric vehicle and to relocate to areas where global warming is mitigated will do that, whereas most of the rest will have to bear the brunt of falling social services, even hotter heatwaves, poorer air and drier parks, and surviving instead of living.
If you feel I'm wrong, kindly prove it to me.
We have fallen into the convenient trap of global warming being the problem. While it is a serious issue every single human being is poisoned from birth by forever chemicals and plastics. Tens of millions of people die every year from pollution.
We have serious issues now. For instance our entire planet is blanketed with lead from decades of burning fossil fuels with lead additive. This wasn't completely stopped until 2023. Don't worry though because coal plants are also dumping a ton of lead into our atmosphere.
It is so bad that when you burn wood it releases a lot of lead because the trees have absorbed it. This lead exposure is attributed to 1-5 million deaths a year alone not even counting all the cancer and premature deaths other pollution causes.
Our entire planet is a Superfund site currently. We have already past the point of no return in my opinion. We could try and fix the damage done but it would likely cost hundreds of trillions of dollars to do it. Capitalists know all this already and they don't care. They are happy to let us fight over global warming.