It is under reported in media and public service campaigns about climate that we can no longer mitigate the problem merely by cutting emissions- we have committed ourselves to carbon sequestration which is the unproven brainchild of technosolutionism and most of us never got a vote.
Aside from China, a substantial amount of global carbon emissions comes from rich Western democracies where everyone did have a vote, in multiple elections over decades, during which scientists were warning the public about climate change. The voters chose to elect politicians who didn't solve the problem. In some cases, the voters chose politicians who denied that problem existed. It's not a good situation, but we definitely got a vote.
