On one hand: Ads are gross noise pollution, and people are increasingly unaware of all the noise around them (or the noise they're generating) largely because they've been passively trained to "tune out" ads. Also consumerism.
On the other hand: As long as there are a significant amount of people oblivious to the possibility of adblock, corporate ad mobsters and the other worst people in the world out there will largely leave those of us blocking their ads alone. If everyone ran adblockers, we'd definitely live in a world of WEI... and probably worse. So, maybe all those people are watching ads so that I don't have to, as the YouTube thumbnails say.
In the US, there will always be a critical mass of voters ready to end the careers of anyone who tries to do any of the above.
I'd add that buses for the most part don't help, and we should revive the trolly systems that Goodyear intentionally put out of business, and furthermore build out mega railway projects to take long haul trucks off the road.
Railways need to be nationalized, and we need to make it easier to live rurally without the need for multiple cars and lots of gas consumption.
And we need to start building a bunch of new nuke plants like 30 years ago.
None of that will start to happen until it is way beyond too late though. And even if the US got onboard with the program, there will always be 40% of the planet who won't. So fuck it, enjoy nature while it lasts. We'll turn the sky white to geoengineer away some of the solar radiation, but the line will continue to go down from here.
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