Dude, you’re almost starting to understand what I’m saying, but obviously not there yet.

I forgot I had all the power and was the president of the world right now.

So, it would be simple and easy if an impossible and unrealistic condition existed. Not helpful.

I can get my own solar panels […] I can lobby my community

That’s a good start, and not hard. Maybe even simple, and/or easy. But it really doesn’t solve the whole problem - it only solves a tiny, tiny part of the problem.

You just need the people with power to actually push for the things I am saying

And how exactly are any of us going to get this to happen? Is it simple to get the people with power to do something? Or easy? Don’t you think there are millions of people who would love for exactly that to happen? Once again, if it were simple or easy, why hasn’t it been done?

It is simple

Oh man, I thought you were starting to understand.

It is not simple. It is not easy. Of course we need to get the people in power to make change. But that is absolutely not easy or simple. It’s like saying, “just cure cancer, duh!”

I do understand what you’re saying. I’m saying you’re wrong. It may be easy for one person to do certain things, but it’s NOT easy or simple to get many people to do enough to effect real change.

I get the impression that you want these things to happen. I agree that doing these things would improve the situation.

If they are easy and simple, why haven’t you done any of them?

• Renewables are not everywhere; why haven’t you done that?
• Silver spooned babies who just feed corporations more power keep getting elected; why haven’t you stopped that?
• Unions are still not as ubiquitous as they could or should be; why haven’t you formed them?

None of this shit is rocket science and you are floundering in learned helplessness like our situation actually IS insurmountable. It is not, not by any means of the word.

Great! What’s your plan?

Because merely identifying another near-insurmountable cause and saying it’s “simple” or “easy” is pointless and dismissive. That’s my point. You’ve offered no solutions or even suggestions for how to find a solution.

If it’s so easy, why don’t you do it? You don’t feel like it?

Its obfuscated on purpose by the wealthy

Why would that matter? You said it was easy.

get rid of the billionaires and stop making clown laws. It is actually this simple.

There is no part of that that’s simple.

If you want to solve the energy problem, invent and mass produce a cheap, non-polluting, zero-point energy generator. It is actually this simple.

For me it’s the pace. I know it’s not that simple, but we’ve been to the moon already. The first unmanned Artemis mission was almost 4 years ago, and now this one, and the next one - which will include landing on the moon…again…won’t be for another 2 years at least. We won’t even begin to build a base until the 2030s.

Even the moon base is just a “stepping stone” to Mars, and we already know that long-term colonization on Mars is unrealistic, given current tech. We don’t yet know how to even survive on Mars (or the moon, for that matter) for more than a few days.

And even if we solve these problems…then what? We also know that even if we figure out how to keep a few people alive for just a few years on Mars, there’s just no reason to try to keep a large number of people on Mars. It’s just too damn hostile.

I don’t know. I agree that this doesn’t have the same romantic feeling of awe and discovery and exploration that I feel like I’m “supposed to” have.