This has always been my point for climate deniers/skeptics. Making these changes will have noticeable effects outside of just reducing green house gases. Cleaner air and energy independence are concrete benefits that cannot be denied.
Many such cases
This is Joel Pett's cartoon for the USA Today on December 13, 2009. It's the highlight of his career, and yet still it hasn't reached the people who need to see it most.
Thanks for adding context
I think about this comic probably once a week at this point. I don't know if anyone will ever be able to boil the problem down any further than what's here — "but what if we make a better world for nothing?"
Unfortunately I have tried to show this to people, or use the line that illustrates it, and the gist of the general response is "my comfort comes before our safety."
Yeah this comic is perfectly accurate, plus the one with the man in the business suit, talking to some children around a campfire in a post-apocalyptic setting, saying “yes the world was destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we made a lot of value for it shareholders.”
EDIT - this one:
my comfort comes before our safety.
Then the billionaire says the same and crushes their lives.
"But it's not profitable." -people who wouldn't profit off it anyway, on any issue about socialism.
"What if we get rid of cars with a really sick revving sound?"
We could probably recreate the sound without burning gas, the newer electric cars sound like alien ships which is definitely a different vibe
Run this software and connect the output to the electric car motor. You can now have the full experience of any engine you want while burning no fuel.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381620/Steam_Engine_Simulator/
Proof of concept: https://youtu.be/4U41OxHiqI8
My favorite political cartoon of all time!
