Many nations agreed that it is a right, so how do we make them live up to their promises? We must protest and influence the younger generations to protest too.

@AnonySchmoose How? I would say some likely avenues would be in the realm of game theory, and having an understanding of balancing principles applied - - something like the checks and balances idealized in the US Constitution, and the notion of pareto optimums, but fully updated to take advantage of modern mathematics and artificial intelligence. We need to update our governments and administrations to compel equitable outcomes. Maybe these new human structures are developed on a small scale that then grows somehow. How do we mitigate the rampant insanity that saturates our existing cultures? Might it not be moral to forcibly deprive people of their stupidity? That stupidity is an existential threat, and some may feel obliged to save Humanity in spite of itself. All the roads lead to hell.

Carbon offsets will not achieve much, and cannot be measured accurately or fairly enough to get rid of CO2 pollution quantitatively.

Yes... The 1% are every bit as toxic as the plastic patch unless they quit being the 1%.

Am feeling that currently. Though I'm not sure how the wealthy are caught in the trap to which they subscribe.

@AnonySchmoose When things go down the tube everyone is included. The wealthy may go down last but it will be the hardest. One cannot buy resources that are not there.

My late partner was an immigrant. A very astute and reasoned based woman. She worked in an international school and dealt with other immigrants a lot but she knew when this country, with our inflated carbon footprint, crashes everyone, including immigrants will suffer. Hence her question about people and dirt.

No in perpetuity.