It’s going to take a lot more than legal challenges to hold the people profitting off of this to account. The system is designed so that those with money can drag things out, something oil companies in particular are expert about. Plus the rich write the laws, and love fossil fuels’ effect on their wallets, I doubt they’ll take this seriously until we’re well over the brink.

But there is another way. Fossil fuel infrastructure exists physically, it can be destroyed with a few dedicated people, a good plan, and high risk tolerance. Executives and billionairres also exist in the physical world, as bodies that require food, shelter, and medical care. I’m honestly surprised there hasn’t been more focus on making change where they are weak, instead of this focus on institutions and policy where they have already stacked the deck.

Meaningful accountability is impossible while conservatives have any influence in global politics. Conservatives will never allow normal people to address climate change. They delight in the misery of others, even when it means their own death as well. That is who they are at their core.

And with the money they receive from corporate benefactors, conservatives (including neo-liberals) are extremely motivated to keep us on this deadly course.

To fight climate change, we must first defeat conservatism. Period. They will kill us all if we are unable to marginalize them.