Pretty much. It's all rather pointless. Don't get me wrong, keep our scientists funded and plugging away at cheaper and cleaner fuels, but right now, in 2014, there is f**k all any of us can do about it. The world is far far too big for any of us to have a meaningful impact on it.
How many decades upon decades upon decades of factories and pollution have there been? And to produce something that will make less of an impact will need a larger pollution output than you would ever save using that product. Buy a Prius and feel good about the lower emissions, just as long as you ignore the sixteen specialty factories and cobalt strip mines that go into making it.
I really believe we can do nothing as countries. Tax a coal mine, and f**k all happens. Give money to people for solar panels, and f**k all happens. If a hundred plus years of mass fossil fuel burning got us here, it's gonna take us closer to a thousand to get back to pre industrial levels, if it ever happens at all. But to do that you need to radically change the way of life for billions of people across the world. It's too much, and too big. It's pointless.
