(06-16-2024, 09:34 AM)mikesez Wrote: It's entirely appropriate to ask what we've personally done regarding climate change.
I've installed solar panels and both my cars get 40mpg.  I have voted in favor of SunRail, electric buses, Brightline extensions, and things like that.
I have tried to use social media and forums to promote radical solutions like new nuclear power, carbon tax and tariff, ocean seeding, and aerosol albedo modification. 

As for using oil companies, if states were able to collect damages from tobacco companies, I don't see how collecting damages from oil companies should be any more difficult.  We have internal documents showing that they knew they were warming the atmosphere and that they intentionally funded quacks that would go out and tell us otherwise.  Exactly what the tobacco companies did in the 1960s. 

However, I'm not in favor of suing them because that only makes fossil fuels more expensive.  The fight has to be about making alternative energy less expensive, not making gas more expensive.

Not just less expensive, but as widely available, useful and as fungible as petroleum. Ultimately, it will be the markets which find a solution. Forcing compliance will only create hardship and pushback. Plus, it takes time for these ideas to age through living generations who weren't faced with such prospects from an early age. Not to mention the creation and build out of the required infrastructure. 

The world will change, given time.

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