Beastimus

This looked like a pretty reasonable report to me. Not exactly hopeful, but maybe slightly better than my hope was before. My takeaways are the same as they were:

1. The US isn't going to lead the fight, we need China (and India) to make progress (faster than it is, though this report was somewhat hopeful to me on that front.)
2. Solar and batteries is gonna be the main source, governments need to build that.
3. Individuals help by A. Being active in the political processes of democratic countries. B. Switching to EVs or preferably off cars altogether. C. Limiting or preferably eliminating meat consumption. D. Switching heating devices off of gas. But individual actions won't be the primary driving force behind any change.
4. General societal shifts towards a reduction in consumption are going to be required.

Epic! I hope to be able to ditch my car in the next two years, and I've mostly stopped eating meat too, and I haven't turned my AC/Heat on since February (and then not for long.) I feel like taking the kind of steps needed to drastically reduce your share of emissions is easier than a lot of people make it out to be. (Though obviously it depends on life circumstances.)

Yeah, obviously you can't blame one individual. Only a ton of individuals in aggregate. That's why its important to change the behavior of large swathes of people.

Yeah, this is a big thing. We really should be trying to replace as much air travel as possible with trains (cause they can be electric,) but otherwise there's not a whole lot we can do in the "making traveling very long distances in a reasonable time energy efficient" space.

Oh stylish!

Yeah, and part of the reason many American cities are car dependent hellscapes is because they ripped out earlier public transit in exchange for "more individual freedom" in the form of being forced to pilot multi-ton death machines through heavy traffic to get to anything that isn't more houses. (Yes, I am aware that this is a case of hindsight being 20/20, and the people who did that didn't know all the things we know now and thus were extraordinarily myopic, but many European cities (including Amsterdam IIRC) did similar things, but they mostly had the good sense to put it back.)

(To be clear, you are also correct.)

Hah, imagine a corner store...

Or just accept that that's not how language works?

TBH, I think we need to bring this back for more remote/low density construction. It sounds awesome and I bet it would be a really good insulator

Party on, party on!

To some degree I agree with you. But it should be noted that poorly regulated capitalism often makes the smart decision for your own best interests to screw with others. Whereas better regulated capitalism (and socialism) theoretically makes that a smart decision less often.

Also, companies do exist, they exist specifically to shunt responsibility off of individuals. (Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, because single people having responsibility for massive economic things is probably a recipe for disaster.)

We do need a significant change in culture, we also need to change the system.