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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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If the politicians would have refused bribes,
the standards wouldn't have come into fruition that allowed the auto industry to decouple vehicle size and weight from energy efficiency;
the trams systems wouldn't have been bought up, shut down, and rails ripped from the ground to make room for more lanes;
the energy sector wouldn't have septupled down on an invisible gas that's 20x worse than burning coal;
the healthcare companies would be run by medical experts finding the best treatment instead of by money men denying care by default;
the technology we developed wouldn't be tracking every time we blink to create advertising opportunities;
the houses we build wouldn't sit vacant waiting for a tenant to pay half their income for the privilege of having no equity...
Greed is the problem.
It's understandable within capitalism why corporations would push boundaries to make money, but our politicians are supposed to be the force of opposition. Instead they look the other way while pocketing another cheque or airline ticket or deed to a brownstone.
I'm as pro active transportation as anyone I have ever met, but it's delusional to blame people for buying a large, expensive vehicle when the manufacturers keep discontinuing small, cheap cars because the return on investment isn't as high. The politicians could require them to make two compact cars for every pickup or SUV, but they don't because they're greedy just like the corporations.
There are no checks and balances anymore, and the politicians are to blame. Some blame in certain places should also land on the electorate, to be sure. But with every city, neighbourhood, and street gerrymandered to look like a hand drawn map by Michael J. Fox, it's mostly the politicians on the hook for all this.