and yet, we waste (and make no mistake, it is a complete waste) our best minds and the bulk of our resources on making people click ads or other similar excursions in nihilism
what is needed is a multinational manhattan project for climate change... instead, we move the deck chairs around on the titanic. it's clear we can expect no leadership from governments or corporations on this issue.
I think there are a lot of people who might feel the same way.
step one will take a good while
then, step two: carbon tax at a rapacious rate. this will likely cause economic meltdown, which is unavoidable if we want to survive.
step three is developing active methods of scrubbing our atmosphere of the shit we've polluted it with
inventing that will take a while also
anyways, let's get going.
As history has shown, when presented with an existential threat to the group, humans are often willing to drop their immediate plans and sign up to fight. Perhaps we're wired that way.
Bring on UBI. And bring on a global 'war economy' to transition us to a zero carbon energy infrastructure.
yes, this is what is needed. unfortunately, the imaginations of our "leaders" are far too small-- too small to see beyond the horizon of their next election.
if we want to continue existing, they've gotta go.
what do you mean by that?
Generally the people who are in favour of "removing people from power" aren't the ones who like to take part in the arduous and complex task of rebuilding governance, which is the real issue.
The overthrowing is easy. The making-it-better-afterwards is so hard, you should skip the overthrowing step and work at that problem right away.
Sadly there are no fire-and-forget answers for issues like this.
Another problem is that democracies are poorly setup for solving this problem. Democracy responds mostly to the needs of now without concern for the future (different politicians problem, different generation etc, kick the football down the field because someone else can deal with it once I've got mine.)
So yea, we're fucked. This along with the coming robot/AI revolution we are likely to see in the middle or later part of the century creates a pretty bleak future for human beings.
To do something like that on a multinational scale, you'll need One World Government. Otherwise you'll just have a bunch of nations bickering over who is paying for what, and who is gaining what in return, without a final arbiter to break up ties and deadlocks and say "okay, you all had a say, now we're doing it this way".