The only thing that will truly solve climate change is technological innovation. The best system ever invented for that is free market capitalism.
People on the left seem to think _all_ people on the right "don't believe in climate change". The truth is that many people don't believe the government can solve the problem...
Unless you can convince all of Africa and India to not want electricity, air conditioning, refrigeration, and roads, we better come up with a technological innovation in power generation or some other area that massively impacts the amount of emissions they will begin generating this century.
Africa (a whole continent) and India consume a lot less per capita & could benefit from the intellectual property we don't share with them. It's in all of our interests to help them electrify differently than previous nation states.
We already have the solutions. We instead subsidize meat, dairy, and fossil fuels. We're lucky "developing countries" don't consume at the rate Americans do or we'd already need 5 planets to satisfy the demand. I'm sorry thermodynamics and physics are inconvenient, but that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to accelerate 2 tons of metal to move one or two people.
We already are. Wind and solar are already quite cheap, and getting cheaper. I used to worry about grid-scale battery storage but sodium and iron-air batteries pretty much have that solved for reasonable cost too.
People on the left seem to think _all_ people on the right "don't believe in climate change". The truth is that many people don't believe the government can solve the problem...
Unless you can convince all of Africa and India to not want electricity, air conditioning, refrigeration, and roads, we better come up with a technological innovation in power generation or some other area that massively impacts the amount of emissions they will begin generating this century.