“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

• Upton Sinclair

Well, there’s been decades of warning about dependency on Russian gas too. Complacency

"But it's expensive to build houses with IR emissive paint on the walls and roof, that money could be spent on buying insulation made out of petrochemicals."

I’m almost at the stage of being really interested in how fast the changes will happen. I wasn’t expecting to see so much change over the last 20 years and the next 10 look to be turbocharging.

That said, I really worry about the world my grandkids are going to inherit.

Profitability and convenience.

well there was kinda a common direction with developed countries to try to reduce what we were doing and then something changed in 2017.

apparently EU has teh most heat related deaths compared to other countries, they dont seem very keen on adopting ACs.

Same reason I spent many evenings frantically completing projects the day before they were due despite being given weeks or months to prepare: why do something now when you don't technically need to do it until later?

Dumb bitch juice.