This is one reason I argue the current "climate emergency" framing popular among educated liberals is harmful. When you have an emergency, but nothing you can do can affect the situation for years, the outcome will be backlash. We just saw this with covid on shorter time scales.
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The idea is to make climate mitigation an untouchable third rail of American politics like military spending or social security, that each team can accuse the other side of subverting. Right now it's more on track to become a partisan litmus test issue like guns or abortion.
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So all we need is for Israel to take an ultra-green turn and Iran to adopt fossil fuel generated Bitcoin
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