Compelling Moral Behaviour

I believe people, not governments, do better at bringing about change in corporate habits with their buying power. But first they must be informed and second they must be motivated. Governments are unfortunately too beholden to the money corporations donate to candidates and campaigns. In Mexico it's less obvious than in the USA, where corruption is simply legal in too many forms, but kickbacks have the same function everywhere.

Did the asbestos industry stop producing and selling its killing products because of people’s buying power?

Did tobacco companies stop selling their poisons to adults, or even to children, because of “buying power”?

No, it required legislation to compel them.

There is no reason to think that oil companies would behave differently. In fact, we have seen them repeatedly working their propaganda arms to persuade people to promote the poisoning of the planet to the detriment of our children and grandchildren.

Remember the idea that GHG emissions can be “clean” through the promotion of “clean coal”?

Why there is no such thing as “clean coal”

Or that burning fossil fuel that produce GHG emissions can “ethical”, if you buy “ethical oil”?

The Fallacy of ‘Ethical Oil’

Some have even argued the fallacy that increasing atmospheric GHGs is a good thing because CO2 is a “plant fertilizer”.

Climate change is hard on plants.

Making long-term commitments to perpetuate the oil and gas industries, whether by state owned Pemex in Mexico and Dos Bocas; by the Canadian government with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion; or buy private corporations is not “clean”, “ethical”, or “fertilizing”. These ideas are the other kind of fertilizer… the kind produced by bulls.

Not sure why you take my comments entirely out of context. My point is that waiting for governments to enact the necessary legislation hasn't worked and still isn't working. I believe that has been made glaringly obvious by the behavior of what passes for the Republican political party in the USA ever since the misfiring Ronnie Raygun removed the symbolic solar panels installed on the roof of the White House by visionary President Jimmy Carter. Mexico has an entirely different and distinct problem. Applying U.S. solutions here is a non-starter for more reasons than I have the time to elaborate on.

Not to mention that it sure looks like we've already passed whatever tipping point we were warned years ago would be the point of no return. So entirely new solutions will be needed to ameliorate if not reduce what we've already done. I suspect the solution of the AI's already being employed to find them will not bode well for humans. I wish that were simply a joke.

So while education is under assault in the USA and historical fires erupt around the world, I'll be looking to people with better solutions than simply choking off the supply of oil or relying on popular technologies that only look better on the surface until you look under the hood. Though you make compelling arguments that I don't necessarily disagree with, to me it almost seems silly to listen to travelers who are the source of extreme pollution flying and driving and cruising around the world for any consistency in solutions to global warming. I see the mostly plastic trash our visitors leave on our beaches every single day, not much different than when I lived in Florida, yet I still manage to find the good will to continue inviting all of you here to get whatever joy out of life you can still find, hopefully finding some love for and from our insignificant backwater destination in the process. And I'll continue seeking to make my purchases based on my own moral criteria. You all are free to do as you wish.

Saludos.