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>>10891005
>I'd like to see some large governmental action to ditch fossil fuels, but it's just not going to happen.

It is not going to happen if activists continue the strategy of "pressure governments to enforce economically unfeasible energy policies." If you want to "ditch" fossil fuels, you need to be pressuring the governments to invest in an Apollo-style crash research program into providing energy that is both carbon-neutral AND economically more attractive than fossil fuels. Come up with THAT, and people don;t have to be forced to switch -- they'll switch willingly because it makes sense for them to do so.

In the meantime, if you are concerned not just with fossil fuels but with climate change, better start thinking more seriously about caw farts and the like. Also, better be pushing the governments to get policies and R&D going on geo-engineering. Becaus whether or not you think it would be a good idea, if things start to get bad, SOMEBODY is going to try it, and it might be better if what is tried has more thought behind it, rather than less, and is coordinated rather than everybody doing too many things at once in a panic and triggering a severe ice age, or something.