Heating, cooling, and manufacturing represent a much bigger piece of the pie. I bike instead of drive when I can, but figuring out how to boost efficiency with heating and cooling will be a much bigger change if you are a home owner. Solar, geothermal, heat exchanger, improved insulation, etc. Its also something any homeowner can do with out relying on society to improve its own infrastructure.

Hmm, yes, good point, about showing and answering questions.

When I was 15 to 28ish, I was the guy who was into cars, went everywhere with a car, heck, I had like 7 cars at one point. Now that I'm not that guy anymore, I find myself answering questions about getting rid of all the cars and stopping driving. A few people have gone "huh, I guess its not that bad" when I tell them how easy it is to go from spot A to B with a bus. I guess its a sort of "lead by example" kind of thing.

I think humanity was really just not set out for the discovery of oil. Too much energy, too quickly, and at a macro level we just consumed as much as possible, spread as much as possible, and integrated it as a new dependency rather than a long term resource with consequences. We didn't even realize there would be consequences until roughly the 1960s, and by then the nations funding the research were so dependent on it, they kind of ignored it or worse, lied and said it was wrong.

And for every problem we face, we use energy to solve it, and most our energy is the fossil fuel variety... So when we try to solve issues, we fuel cars and industrial equipment and use oil to go clean up oil spills.

It's kind of a trap, and we weren't in a good position to survive it.

Yeah...

Oh well, I've resorted to do things out of spite. I'll keep living frugally, economically, ecologically because fuck everyone else.

Many people will just throw up their hands and walk away but for me the only way I can accept what will happen is if I did my best (minus my handicaps, like living under capitalism, personal issues, etc etc) to stop it.

sure we do its called democracy,

surely your argument cant be that say Reform in the UK who are super popular and climate deniers have the same policies as say The Greens in the UK ? or in Australia or NZ or Canada, or Germany.

And while id agree that arent radical enough the Overton window needs to be moved substantially before the truly radical politicians can be heard.

what we've collectively decided to do is not even try and then say we run out of ideas, a. d then respond with let's just elect the worst of the wort and clutch our pearls.

weave had 100 years

We're to stupid

I think it’s also size of democracy.

The more people you have that vote, the less they think their vote has an impact.

I bet you can totally change a few thousand people’s minds in a productive way.