Love that this focuses a lot on the colonial aspect of climate change. Rich nations (and their rich populations) demanding that less well off economies rapidly pull away from the very same polluting industries that made the rich countries rich in the first place is not the correct approach to solving climate change. Especially when the rich countries themselves barely do anything despite having way more money.
It's also interesting to me that the video says "there's no reason that profit interests couldn't match the need to reduce carbon emissions", because a lot of stuff I've read about transportation and urban planning in the past year supports just that. Mainly that car infrastructure is incredibly expensive and impossible to make profitable without gigantic government subsidies, so cities should focus more on alternative modes of transportation such as walking, cycling, and mass public transport. And the video even acknowledges that the carbon cost of building car-centric infrastructure is much greater than the cost of actually driving on it.
Sadly the video kind of consistently subconsciously undermines this point throughout with its focus on electric vehicles which solve nothing about the required underlying infrastructure while alternative forms of transport are completely ignored. A small point, but the stuff about urban planning has made me think of just how much cars are seen as the only acceptable form of transport these days, and this video is just one small example of how pervasive this sort of thinking is even when you're talking about how to solve climate change.
It's also a weird coincidence for me to see this today, when on my bike commute a car dangerously and illegally overtook me all so they could save 0.5 seconds on their journey (there was literally a red light 50 meters in front). Which got me thinking how many other cyclists this particular driver will do this to, and how many of them will switch from cycling to driving a car so that they don't put themselves in danger every single day. And how many other drivers will see this sort of poor driving, think it's acceptable, and start emulating it. All of this together probably still adds to nothing in the grand scheme of things, but it's important to remember that your actions, even small ones you might not even think about, don't just effect you in isolation. They also have a drastic effect on the people around you.
Although ultimately, even voting can only do so much, especially if you don't live in a global superpower. For example, my country is currently in the planning process of expanding our nuclear power plant, which would massively help with cutting emissions. However, there is already strong political opposition to the planned construction from a neighboring country, which is something I and everyone else living here has zero political control over.
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