No.
Does anyone else feel the current push against climate change is a cheap front to hold false protests, and push higher taxation on the smaller companies and startups that will inevitably take the risk to clean up pollution caused by negligent lawmakers negligently creating laws against man instead of protecting our greatest resource?
Real leftist ideas about fighting climate change are like the following example:
- tax companies producing CO2
- (companies will make products more expensive because of the added cost)
- distribute the taxes evenly among the people. This way, poor people who don't buy a lot can compensate for the increased cost. Rich people who fly with airplanes all the time and buy lots of stuff pay more and just get a little rebate.
What is happening in reality is that only one part is implemented because of course you can't help poor people and rich people have the power to decide such things. OP is following a twisted version of reality that is designed to keep him from realizing the real problem. Like many right wing ideas and talking points, this is only designed to keep rich people rich and in power and disempower poor people and disrupt meaningful political change.
I do wholeheartedly agree that we're disenfranchising the working man the most as they're given the responsibility of being the driving consumers of our economies but also the highest taxed to feed their materialistic lifestyles.
If we stifle the advancement of greener technology, we impoverish those who are still willing to work and ascend their economic class. All I see is a grouping of startups being fed to the larger fish within a pond, while continuing to hoard wealth within their ranks.
Carbon credits are pretty self defeating. My only example recently is the option to reduce my carbon footprint by donating a small carbon cost of my flight to the airline so they in turn can write off their own emissions and buy farmland that will inevitably be turned acidic from foreign species dominating the landscape.
I'm just trying to point out how nothing is changing besides the new methods of mandating authoritarian bills against the proles to keep them subservient as governments shift into the next stage of a post industrial society, while denigrating our most precious resource during which our eyes are still blinded by the false enthusiasm created to give false optimism.
Pinning the blame on the individual allows people to feel like they are doing more. It's like what they are doing with COVID, things like masks and vaccines are placed in much higher rankings of importance instead of ventilation and cleanliness.
The other problem is that modern lefties make it very hard for the average white christian working class man to associate with them given their liking of things like identity politics and things that are largely irrelevant to helping reduce income disparity.
The same can be said about the modern right wing, while they are pro reduction in things like taxation, they also want to reduce immigration, at least in paper, which makes your average CEO not want to support right wing politicians to avoid controversy.
Sorry for the tangent, but I definitely agree that most politics are targeting the individual because companies nowadays hold so much power in government and want to expand this control.
Eating bugs is actually more expensive at the moment than the equivalent meat product.
If the infrastructure provided in North America could accommodate the wanting populace to travel without a car, there would be a higher demand. Corporations and their government controlled seats have stalled most advancement or regression needed to make suburbia or urban hubs better interconnected. We've built nests of dense and sprawled out housing too dependent on supermarket chains and lost our own control of logistics and food production.