With the climate heating up right wing nationalism probably will get much worse to a level, where technology will race head to head with conflicts arising from the migration of entire countries worth of people towards the cooler geographies. Nationalism and right wing ideology probably will be on the rise for the next decades, and it will make global efforts and cooperation very very challenging. (not to mention the traditional anti science tropes)
So yeah, I think we got a few (?) things to work out in the are aof politics before all of the above can work.
]]>Get rid of Nazis and extreme right wing:
This is a no brainer, climate migration will be a thing and as the heat goes up, so will the numbers of climate refugees. This will be a global problem on all continents, and you will need all the humanity our species can muster to deal with it. Having extreme right wing loonies in the mix will be explosive and will relegate the masses into an "us vs them" situation (see Eastern Europe's leaders and their playbooks), that topped off with late stage capitalism is a potent mix for large scale conflict.
Centralise pollution:
Electric cars are good for many reasons, but for some reason there is little talk about how they enable focusing pollution into particular places. Power Plants generating electricity (any type) "focus" pollution for n+1 electric cars. While oil based fuel industries pollute during extraction, refinement, transport and subsequently in cities destroying air quality, electric vehicles use electricity generated by power plants.
This enables humanity to focus on de-polluting power plants, instead the entire oil-to-fuel cycle dispersing effort AND as a side effect solve car pollution in cities & everywhere. With electric cars only you could focus (mostly) all the effort of oil based fuel pollution mitigation (from extraction to dealing with smog) to the plants that produce electricity. Its possibly easier to invent carbon mitigating tech for regular power plants, and deal with nuclear waste than solve the ENTIRE Oil-to-Smog cycle at every step of its way.
Replace Profitability with Sustainability:
Wall Street and its equivalents need to understand that "infinite growth" is over, or we all go down together. You need to educate the word about that, and thru public opinion change should be forced somehow.
As an aspiring Billionaire thats where I would invest money, but the problems above require magnitudes higher funding. Therefore the only way is education and the marketing for survival of the species, or you can drop a giant quid on NY as someone said above.
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