If only some people, whether 0001% or 5%, largely or wholy control also these aspects of life, this can be booked as debit and not as profit or progress.
This too is regression!
Alas, in US we do not have even an incipient democracy. What we have there appears the best-developed fascist governance ever set up and thus have also fascist gov’ts.

Without elimination or diminishment of fascism, all that is left to do is patching old pants.
Possibly no progress is possible without regress. However, progress-regress managed by a much democratic society wld be more palatable or people might decide that we have not any socalled progress if there is probability that some people wld get hurt!
Wld the actual rulers go for this? Not likely! As long as 90%+ of people are near-utterly excluded from a governance, we can only expect the usual: crimes against aliens and nature! tnx

What is proven to change consumption patterns is an economic downturn. Maybe nothing else can do so. Alternative energy will be forced on us by a long-term diminished economic condition. They will accompany each other.

Like alternative energy, technology will not solve this problem, in fact alternative energy is about technological solutions to non-technological problems.

Computer chips are a poor (tho appreciated) comparison.

But for sure, subsidization is a big issue, and one that could, if applied appropriately do much to begin the process. Energy though needs to be looked at from the other end – are there limits to our material wants and needs? Would a reduction in demand, stablize our energy needs regardless of the source?

In order to understand the problem it is essential to understand its massive expanse. Green jobs, planting trees, changing light bulbs, going to a park, are cyncial politically correct slogans to a problem that is global, deeply systemic and institutionalized. It is bound up in geopolitical corporate trade agreements, the dissolvement of sovereignty, replaced by hegemonic take over wherever “US national interest” demands it. Our attempts to solve it by doing more of the same with green “paint” is a joke that is doomed for a tragic ending…and it is all about keeping what is just the way it is.

With the fire season barely under way, firefighters from two Australian states have been battling huge blazes threatening the northeastern tropical city of Rockhampton and coastal hamlets further south in New South Wales.

“I would urge all Australians to make sure they are fully prepared for the challenges which will be alive during this bushfire season,” Rudd told parliament.

Authorities have warned the current fire season could rival “Black Saturday” blazes in February which scorched through southern Victoria state, destroying more than 2,000 homes and leaving behind a A$1.12 billion ($1.04 billion) insurance bill.

Those fires, fanned by a heat wave and winds topping 100 km per hour, caused the highest ever loss of life from bushfire in the world’s most fire-prone country.

But with drought, climate change and dry forest undergrowth combining to create perfect fire conditions across much of the country, authorities say the December-February summer months could bring the highest fire risk Australia has ever faced. REU

On the other end of planet Earth the lid has been taken off and weather not climate will be changing fast for the Northern Hemisphere. I see where some are witting about how Many Americans are cooling to the idea of climate change. The truth about what is coming down the track just might be good but we can’t handle the truth that’s right but I guess we can handle the truth illusion that a few people who control media, bank’s, business, policy and our thoughts tell us sort of in between the games people play now every night and everyday now, oh the games people play. Did anybody happen to see Glenn Beck and his baseball bat prop, so cool. Remember these people are anything but at calm at peace there nut’s.

Wow GREEN wage slavery — how quaint.

HO HO HO … Green Slavery.