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
also think it's because republicans went all in on transphobia and it's really not popular (not saying the American population is pro trans rights generally, just apathetic)
I hope you're right for the sake of 2024.