I once assumed that small incremental environmentally conscious steps in how people lived, worked, and played were inevitable. I'm talking smaller, more energy efficient, and safer vehicles, vegetable protein substitutes in place of industrialized meat products becoming generally accepted and even the norm, and I even had naive presumptions about some imminent expansion of mass transportation because it simply made more economic sense.
But that was all before I learned the power of 
I mean, IDK, Russia withstood the sanctions, NATO is running out of weapons to send, and dollar hegemony is waning steadily.
fair
though there will be a pretty much endless "insurgency" funded by the "international community" for decades to come