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You can't. But in the real world, we aren't going to stop using planes, cars and heaters in the next few months.
The best thing that aids a transition are carbon offsets that help subsidize the very technology upon which a Green revolution depends.
Ironically inconvenient truths for the armchair environmentalists.
Besides, I suspect if one gave them all a winning lottery ticket we could observe how quickly their attitudes change.
Nevertheless I could think of probably hundreds of individuals far less ethical and far more responsible for global catastrophe in this day than Swift. So as far as billionaires go, she's not all that bad. Let's perhaps focus more on Musk, Bezos, the Waltons, etc...?
Yeah but hating on those folks wouldn't be as cool as hating on someone the normies like!
.../s
I wouldn't be surprised if this outrage is astrotrufing from righties because they're scared how powerful Swift is in mobilizing Voter registration for the left.
Someone else pointed out there was a John Oliver segment about carbon offsets (in which he pointed out that they aren't well regulated and are subject to abuse.) I think people forgot the specifics and just remember OFFSETS = BAD, rather than the appropriate albeit more nuanced "like most things, these are vulnerable to abuse and should probably be better regulated."
Combine that with hating mainstream pop culture with a chance to condescend and you have a perfect storm of toxicity.