Reversals will take a little time

I have never, not for a moment, thought humanity could mitigate the ecological crisis.

. . . the perspective being that it has not just been an issue of too high rates of pollution and depletion over the period of the last three hundred years (since the advent of industrialism). It has been a question of civilizational trajectories that go back millennia: growth, expansion, development. These trajectories accelerated into an utterly insane parabolic escalation in recent centuries.

. . . the momentum of which will take centuries and millennia to reverse.

https://medium.com/@thredmedia/the-1977-climate-memo-that-shouldve-changed-the-world-aa74b7488641

Choosing to install solar panels on the White House roof in 1977, Jimmy Carter caused a stir among the public, but he remained firm in pushing renewables as the future of energy way before it was popular. After losing his re-election campaign, Carter’s tenure was ended by Ronald Reagan in 1981. His successor’s attitude became immediately clear. First order of business was to rip the solar panels off the White House.