Advertising, excess consumption and climate change

[Think. Again.]

10. You are definitely on the right track!

...and you're 100% correct (in my opinion) that the largest driver of CO2 emissions and therefore climate change is the absurd and completely unnecessary pace and volume of economic-growth-at-all-costs.

For some strange reason people think that growth, in and of itself, is somehow a requirement of societal well-being. Unfortunately, there is population growth, which will drive increased economic activity all by itself, but we also live under the fabricated idea that everything must always be getting bigger, more abundant, and faster, without any consideration of whether bigger, more abundant, and faster is in reality a good thing or a bad thing.

And as we know, it is definitely a bad thing when it causes irreversable damage to our well-being in the form of climate change.

Economic and consumerism growth, when forced to happen for no other possible reason than to force economic and consumerism growth, is literally killing humanity.

I came across a good post by Waterguy https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127163972 that has a link to Project Drawdown which appears to be an organization that is working to address corporate and financial responsibilities of mitigating climate change, among other efforts they are making.

https://www.drawdown.org/