The problem is studies have demonstrated it's counterproductive both in the popular debate and at driving policy, it can actually set back the green movement.
Just because you agree with their idealism doesn't mean you need to agree with their behaviour, if I burn tires to get awareness for climate change that isn't something a sensible person supports
Beside the UK obviously and Ukraine, is there anyone else who would have? Putin is nuts but why would he blow up a pipeline he owns?
Also fun fact that's pertinent to this thread, the attack resulted in the largest release of methane in human history.
What if that gas allows everyone in the room to function and when it stops they all either die or fight for the limited alternatives, that fight releases far more gas than would have been released over the next five hours and kills all the people working on opening the window and making alternatives who would have been finished with in the hour?
Your metaphor only works because it misses out all the important bits.
The problem is millions die, government's are no longer able to govern and popularist war lords gain power in the chaos which results in huge conflicts that cause far more ecological damage without any measures or efforts to remedy them - we still get clomate change but probably sooner and worse.
Also let me ask the people here with children who among you would let your child freeze to death and who would chop down a tree to burn? The ecological damage done by a civilization collapse would be intense, we're too close to the edge to risk that - maybe if it'd fallen at the start of the Industrial revolution but how long would it have been until that technology comes back and we're right where we are?
We need to change society and evolve new technology, the later is actually doing really well with many giant leaps for climate friendly technologies and infrastructure but society is proving to be very resistant, people aren't going to create a new greener world if they get angry at the very idea of being told to reduce, reuse, recycle.
That's because no one pays attention to the huge developments in infrastructure or the amazing new technologies coming to market - e fuels like sequestered carbon jet fuel made from excess renewable power, and no it's not a science fiction dream it's happening now. Of course we should have more funding for these things but they are happening.
A huge part of that problem is that people resist even the slightest positive change, paper straws are fine but I bet there are people who like this post who also liked posts complaining about them - if we stopped organized sports and spent that half a trillion on transitioning local infrastructure or establishing carbon sequestration systems with productive use of captured carbon (e.g. building materials that get landfilled at eol) we could move much faster, but no one will give up a single football game to save the planet they'd rather bomb something and feel like a hero
Am I the only person who remembers how we already decided that some jokes are very dangerous? You get some impressionable twenty something thinking everyone is serious...
Yeah it's scary that people don't seem to understand that this would lead to billions dead which would cause chaos and resources wars that totally doom the planet.
We need infrastructure to transition, we need technological innovations and cultural stability
I used to have the irq of my sound blaster 16 memorised because you need to put it in for every game.
Yeah but no one wants to pay for development of open source alternatives
My characters in BG3 can barely walk they're carrying so many potions and scrolls, The weak stuff isn't worth wasting a turn using and the strong stuff might be useful later...
I remember the same from when I was a kid, though BG was the only time it paid off because you can start BG2 with your party you finished BG1 with so I had loads of stuff I could carry through the whole geme without using.
People forget how shit TV was for wasting your time, summed up perfectly in that Mitchell and Webb skit with the TV show that was entirely teaser clips of what's coming up followed by recap clips of what we'd just seen
There's endless extended longfirm content on YouTube, someone like Isaac Arthur with his 60 hours just taking about one category of solutions to the Fermi paradox or you can watch someone talk for forty minutes about their ten minute morning routine.
Wow you've brought back unhappy memories 'a for achievement, d for effort' and 'you got everything right but poor presentation, c'
Worst was when I'd to a test and get all the answers right and they'd question how I did so well, bitch because you can't take marks away for no reason on a multiple choice. Actual worst was that this was 1990 and they wouldn't let me do my homework typed 'when you get a job your boss is going to need things hand written' fucking what lol