I mostly agree with you. My personal issue with it is the "talks". I want to see actionable planning, not people crying. To me, Ethiopia is currently a hero in trying to combat global warming by at least doing something. We can argue the grand effectiveness. But trying to plant as many damn trees as possible is more productive than "you stole my future".

I don't believe environmentalism and capitalism have to be at odds. I think the "at odds" is artificial, from both sides. As a bit of trivia, when kerosene use to be processed, gasoline was a waste by product. Thus, dumped straight into the water supply. While anything oil is essentially the devil, and not exactly the best example, but is a form iteration. At least it wasn't dumped into the water supply anymore after a profitable use was found. My grand point, take that same economic drive and have that person try doing the same with an environmental twist. Oh, better one. Sorry, I'm thinking on the fly. What if Dick Chaney was a tree hugger? And I'm serious. Think if a guy like him, with his hardcore tenacity, lack of care of others, woke up one day and went "I'm going to save the rainforest because the forests need saving. Fuck people." Because I know the guy would still make money doing it... God have mercy on your soul if you're holding a chainsaw.

I find the problem lies between attitude and... well... competence. Not competence is like a general sense. But how the "world functions". First, it's complicated as hell. It's so interconnected, it's crazy. That seems silly and obvious, but the more you try to understand it, it's a situation where you learn how little you actually know. Like, why does the USA gov not like coffee prices going down? Because Columbian farmers don't make as much from growing coffee. They now have more reason to grow coca. Thus, more cocaine. Higher coffee prices keeps coca productions at a certain level. Still high, but if the production goes higher, supply of cocaine goes up, thus prices go down, and it becomes even more accessibly to the world stage and then even more cocaine users. But then you have people complain about the price of a pound of coffee. I'm okay with spending more on coffee ever since I learned of this. And that's just a super simple example. There are better ones. But I hope that makes the point.

On the other point of attitude. I'm well... allergic to people "spreading awareness". Going back to Ethiopia, why is it that a country tries and does break a world wide daily tree planting record in the name of trying to save the planet, got what? An article or two? A teen cries and says "shame on you", we all lose our minds? Seriously, that's where a lot of the anger comes from. One group of people spreads awareness by trying to make one shred of actual difference to actually help the planet. In a long term manner at that. No one cares. But yesterday there was a slew of "young people out to save the world" at the UN, not just greta. They all just say "Shame on you old people." They have no real plan. No real course of action. They don't even know the history or system that led us to this. But they have plenty of "shame on you".

In truth, they are right. Shame on us. We listen to the talkers, the virtue signalers and the politicians who led us to the hell hole. We ignore those planting trees, picking up garbage and educating developing countries on eco-friendly methods of production.