Articles like this that obsess over consumption curtailment and ignore everything else are beyond foolish. Please at least mention the Inflation Reduction Act in passing.

Also the irony is that the "bank bailout" was a failure too! The 2010s were a lost decade because the politicians were afraid to adequate stimulus, the Europeans are still afraid!

So the idea that the politicians are afraid of doing unpopular things is also dis-proven --- avoiding recessions would also be popular.

There was a fear of doing anything at all, and now there is less of that. The IRA is very much a political theory that:

- Green male jobs in red states will stave off fascism

- Green suburbia is necessary because we can't get our shit together on density/transit fast enough.

These environmental types need to becomes aware of the massive era-demarking shifts we've seen in policy in politics in recent years. And they better also support way more multi-story housing because giving people cheap apartments without parking spots is far more popular than directly curtailing driving / ICEs.

Also do nuclear power but the brits already have some decent plans there.