On the other hand, I see the exact opposite in my town. The municipality is making decent changes, replacing diesel busses with CNG and hydrogen, setting up alternative fuel and charging stations, closing up the city center for cars, planting an absurd number of trees around anything that is renovated. The district heating plant does burn methane which is not the best but still cleaner than other options.

And then around those clean silent busses there is a sea of decade old 3 liter diesel cars that smell like a petroleum refinery, and every time it gets cold, everyone who doesn’t have that district heating smokes up the entire town in a layer of fucking smog from all the fuel oil heating.

I think the average person could use a hard look at themselves too. Too many people are using just whatever is cheapest and dgaf as long as they get what they want in their life. The only time I’ve seen anyone consider anything else is when there are government subsidies or taxes that artificially make the sustainable option cheaper.