I hope at some point the wider public understands what's happening, big govt is being dismantled, governance powers are being outsourced to corporations hand over fist, making serious incursions into critical public infrastructure.
They call it 'localised freedoms'.
I call it Zone Fever.

8. To counter the spiral requires massive political effort: dissent, protest, non-cooperation and the building of alternatives on a vast scale. The response by power will be extreme repressive violence. Only societies prepared to withstand it produce alternatives to tyranny.

I have an issue with your first two paragraphs: you’re comparing aviation and concrete emissions

This ignores the inequality and choice of flying

Concrete is a systemic issue that no individual can affect. Flying cannot be compared this way

Your framing doesn’t focus on the root cause: inequality

Has a more than 10x increase in fossil fuels really been essential for the population growing by 3x?

Hang on, why does getting back to 1950s levels of energy consumption equate to everyone 'going back' to hunter-gathering or subsistence farming? How many of our grandparents were hunter-gatherers? (Not saying more energy – fossil or renewable – isn't required to support a bigger population).

Good article, but OMG the frothing at the mouth climate denial in the comments section is off the charts!