Carbon isn't the problem; Consumptionism is. Humans are living as though our consumption of resources is the point to living. In order to consume resources, we use energy without regard to why we are doing most of the things we do.

There's no feedback mechanism to slow consumption: only schemes to divert the paths of extraction from one resource to another resource until there are no resources at all.

Competitive consumption is no way to exist as a species, regardless of what we run it on.

What are people doing to contribute to the future usefulness of their own places?

What systems are in place to even question our behaviors?

Every predicament we are facing is rooted in our disregard of the soil under our feet and the people most response able for it.

What will the 7th generation after us ask about our systems of decision making?

"Why did they buy things they didn't need?"

"Why did advertising have so much coercive power over children?"

"Why didn't anyone stop corporations from owning governments?"

"How could anyone believe that an egg should only cost a dime?"