I think there are a lot of people who might feel the same way.
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.
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.