Agreed.

And I know if Billionaires, the ultra wealthy paid their share in taxes, most of our problems would fade away and become a distant memory.

The affordability factor is because all the wealth is been sucked up by the rich no matter how productive we are. It's a political problem.

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Yeah, around the world many governments are cracking down on protesters, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to voice our opposition to the anti-climate, in- the pocket -of -lobbyists pro-oil politicians.
The biggest oil companies, like Exxon have very deep pockets and right wing groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Atlas Network are very powerful global organizations. Not sure how we effectively fight back.

edit: I agree it is systemic, also we face an almost insurmountable problem....population vs the geographical size of our country. How do we provide adequate, inexpensive, reliable public transit between villages, town and cities? Not to mention, overcoming the challenges of moving goods?

i am a physics professor & i understand the magnitude of our planetary climate emergency better than most people.

also, my Dad is an energy policy expert who has been sounding the alarm about fossil fuels since the 1970s, long before it became fashionable to do so. i grew up having energy policy conversations around the dinner table & gave feedback on an entire book he wrote when i was a teen

Norway has almost completely changed purchases of new cars from petrol/diesel to electric, in less than two decades iirc, through government regulation and incentives. btw EVs are a lot more affordable than / EVs, but the government is severely restricting their imports "to protect local industry".

We don't have adequate public transportation and unless I am misinformed about this topic, I don't know of any lower middle income to no income people who can afford an EV.
So what is your suggestion, exactly how do those folk go shopping, visit the doctor and family and friends?
It's easy to point the finger and assign blame to the wrong people.

18b subsidies, that's communism.

Burn them with their own oil, these dirty communists.

I would like to see gas rationing so that stupid people can't go driving around just for fun. Road holidays once per year etc. Will never happen but we have to wean the addicts off this shit.

Yeah, stop the mining for fossil fuels. Cancel the contracts. Stop the refining industry. Cancel their permits. Stop all the tax breaks, transport licenses, storage permits, infrastructure financing, insurance (this is a big one in Britain), power plants, and all of it. In whatever order as needed. Also, ration existing fossil fuels so the people can make do for a year or so with what has already been refined. That should be enough time to adjust, and scrap existing gas engines.

Thank you. May you never stop being rude enough. Polite is an outrageous insult to 20,000 dead Europeans.

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44 buys even more..

And there will still be wildfires.