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I personally think the only way to handle climate change will be to force the more selfish US citizens to change their lifestyles. Just being realistic I don't think they will change without a civil war type scenario. Or the threat of a war.

They won't listen unless they are forced to. Period.

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its NOT individual person's fault. Its large dirty businesses that create majority of the pollution. Only way to fight global warming is to target them to pay for their externalities.

You can help, you can recycle. But all of the businesses could be forced to use environmental responsible packaging. Thats the kind of externalities I am talking about.

How come when a tanker spills oil in gulf we as tax payers pay for the clean-up, how come when a power lines start forest fires we have to pick up the bill?? And so on...

Energy consumption per unit GDP tells a different story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity_by_country

Except we use that efficiency to consume more, hence increasing GDP. We have also been picking the low hanging fruit. It is going to get progressively more difficult.

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