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>>57719289
If what you meant to say was,
>was there historical equivalent of ESG where there was overreach by state level actors?
Then yes. In recent memory: ban on plastic bags, plastic straws, nuclear power, gas heating, gas cookers, ICE vehicles.

>>57198672
It will happen eventually (might have happened already if you consider how harder and more expensive it gets to extract oil every year). What worries me more than energy is plastics. We still don't have a full replacement for plastic. Sanitation, agriculture, and industry will be set back a century or two without plastic.
>inb4 meme article about plastic replacement.
It doesn't exist. We need to it to be durable against water, bacteria, and temperature fluctuations.