The keyword is probably world government. Also institutions like the EU are pretty intressting. That has been copied in Africa, Eurasia and South America.

You can however Switch to some open source software without having to go full Linux. Introducing Libre Office, Firefox, Thunderbird and so forth can be done in Windows. Software Not working one Linux is often a big problem for switching.

This is why we can’t fix climate change by reducing individual carbon footprint. Because it requires 100% of the population taking it upon themselves to do the right thing and many individuals: -don’t care -don’t have the option

No, it just requires everybody who is not living in a sustainable fashion to change their lifestyle. Prending otherwise like you do is just not helpful. People will not be able to drive a combustion engine car, fly on a jet, take diesel ship cruises, eat even close to as much beef and a lot of other things, which are going to change their lifes. Without changing that, you just can not solve the climate crisis.

People like you, who only want to lobby governments to take action, ignore that this is going to create a counter movement. That already happened a few times. Yellow west and farmer protests come to mind. This is very easily capable of stoping climate action in total and has lead to some truely nasty parties gaining in power. This idea of being able to ignore those effects, is just plain and simply dumb. We need to convince most people to take climate change seriously enough to be willing to change their lifes. Otherwise your climate idea of just lobbying works once and is very quickly reversed.

Keep in mind a society is made up of individuals. That means no society will be willing to take climate action, when the individuals in the society are not willing to do so.

The top 10% globally emit almost half of global emissions That group is also the one, which can afford the alternatives, like for example EVs.

You also ignore that actually living the change, is what builts up the alternatives. Lets take EVs as an example. Economies of scale bring down prices and more EVs means more reason to expand charging infrastructure. We can in fact see both of those in action. That kind of stuff also works socially. The more EVs are around, the more normal they become. It also lowers oil sales, which hurt oil companies, which makes them weaker.

Aligning you politics and your lifestyle, also makes you more effective politically. Somebody who rudes their bike in everyday life as trandport, will call for very different things, then somebody who only drives everywhere. That can just be knowing the worst parts in the cycling network. Also again, it makes it more believable, when you lobby for something, which makes your life better.

So I will continue to try to live a life, which aligns with my values, and not pretend I gave up all my agency to Wallstreet.

What I am trying to say, is that to fight climate change lifestyle changes are required. To get those changes done in a demicratic fashion, you need to convince a majority of people to actually make those changes. Part of that is making them without the actual law, to show that it is possible.

Just take you as an example. You want I presume a combustionengine ban. However that ban would cause you massive problems, as you can not get to work or buy food without a car. I would say that, if true, those would be amazing arguments against such a ban. For me the argument is much easies, as I would do more or less fine with that law, as my lifestyle is already pretty low car.

Remember when we tried to get people to wear masks during the pandemic?

Remeber the US president refusing to wear a mask in public? Johnsons parties during covid? There was a lot of that bs.

So you waste your time trying to get 100% of the worlds population to change their individual carbon footprint.

That is the plan. How else are you going to get to zero, but to change the everybodies carbon footprint.

Instead of focusing on getting the majority of voters to protest and vote.

To do what? Ban combustion engines to force everybody to change their individual carbon footprint? Any sort of actually massive climate legislation is going to impact a lot of peoples life directly.

I have both been able to work and get food without using a car.

How do people die from not having a car? It must be a lot of them, given that most can not afford them, but depend on them…

That includes downstream emissions. So if your car runs on BP oil, those emissions would be part of BPs emissions.

There is a reason BP is not advertising people to drop their cars. BP wants two things in its campaign. First of all to make clear that it is your lifestyles fault and secondly that besides munor changes you do not have to change that at all.

The line is reduce, reuse and then recycle for a reason. Not buying something and buying second hand are affordable for everybody. Unfortunatly the later takes more time.

Also boots theory is something to keep in mind. As in buying quality is often cheaper over the long term.

Language barriers. German feddit.org and Italian feddit.it are also outside. Partly that also might be a country thing. aussie.zone is also a bit outside. The other big group are defederated communities like lemmynsfw, lemmybear and hexbear.

Slrpnk is most English and many topics are relativly intressting to none instance users. So you get that. Besides a bunch of more solarpunk specific communities that is.

So federation seems to work rather well.

Oh sorry, Jerboa does not seem to implement that.

There is a cross post function in lemmy.

Hope dissociates from the present and the future, externalizing your care into an imagined future you can not affect.

There is a difference between “wishing” and “hope”. “Wishing” actually does externalize the way you can shape the future you want. “Hope” on the other hand just lays out a positive future, which you can strive for.

That “hope” in form of a vision distinct and different to neoliberalism is one of the biggest reason the left has failed so badly in the last decades. We just need a vision of the future, which is practical in the real world. Hence worker cooperatives, permaculture, renewable energy, co-housing and all those other great projects, which actually can replace neoliberalism are so important. Without those working alternatives, we are doomed to just fight the evils of neoliberalism, fascism and dictatorships forever, as we can just never set up that alternative. Obviously we also should not fool ourself into believing it will be perfect if those are gone, but it hopefully is better.

Tidal power of some sort would be pretty solar punk. The big advantage is that it is much more predictable then wind.

Algaculture would be intressting as well. It is still relativly uncommon in the West.

For canals electric ships are an intressting option. Solar powered ferries are a thing, but also cable powered ferries.

In rivers reaction ferries are a wonderfull alternative. They use the flow of water to power the ferry over the river using nothing else but ropes. Really call and very much solarpunk.

Another one is swimming in canals and rivers. Especially in cities this is often not a good idea, due to bad water quality.

Commuting via boats and ferries. When you have a large river, why not commute to work via stand up paddling or in a kayak?

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Also hydrofoils are pretty cool. They allow for greater speed on water.

Pretending we are all doomed just leads to inaction. Why bother, if we all die anyway.

Pretending all will be great just leads to inaction. Why do something yourself, when it is basicly solved already.

What works is to understand that there is a problem, but we have the solutions. That is actually the case right now. We have a massive problem with climate crisis, but we also have the tools to bring our emissions to basicly zero, if we choose to do it. Some countries are already taking actions on this.