But companies need to be told what to do. Because for them, keeping everything the same and never changing is the cheapest. Even if you factor in the massive amount of lobbying they do against alternatives.

Are you one of those "regulations are bad" people? Many regulations are outright bans.

That only works when the population for the most part acts rationally and reasons from facts and not like a cult that lives completely divorced from reality and doesn't reason and can't be reasoned with.

This outright ignores multiple facts.

1 we have known how bad this shit is since the 1970s. When Exxon was the company that released the research. Yes Exxon discovered climate change.

The company then changed leadership and spent a fortune trying to bury their own research.

The simple fact is. Without government bans. Corperations have 0 motive to change their previous investment strategies. And huge motive to fight any competition that dose.

People have known electrical power is more efficient and cheaper since the 1900s. But as oil corps have been investing in infrastructure and government control since then. They have sold convenience as an intrinsic element of fossil fuel. Dispite the huge huge investment tax payers have been forced to spend to create this network.