It's a bit hard not to be a doomer when one tries to be realistic. Pretty much nothing so far has proven that the people in power give a shit about preventing the worst case. And until people realize it and actually rise up en masse, it won't change. And that's mostly down to chance, I think, for example of a devastating enough event to happen for people to go "oh shit".
SkyeStarfall
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Not burning it is an option though.
..it's just cheaper not to. If you ignore the externalities for it. Which we do.
Yeah. Carbon capture of flue gas would be much more efficient.. but we're also not really doing that so..
"and what is the penalty if they lose that risk?" "Why, they become a labourer like the rest of us!"
Honestly though, skipping it because of its cultural/religious connotations opens up a bad can of worms, because it's not the only shunned number, and it varies from culture to culture, and you can't really give preferential treatment to one culture over any other, as a global mainstream project like this.
Wawaweewa
The "just" there is doing a lot of work considering the devs themselves disagreed. Sorry, but, I'm going to trust their judgement.
..also the whole networked displays themselves was what caused a lot of problems, according to the devs. Using it for a modern display stack was like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. Terminals have fallen out of favor ages ago, and personal computing devices today favour things like high responsiveness, clean images, and high refresh rates instead. And we got enough computing power to just stream a video stream directly if that's needed now.
Then they should provide examples. And not just talk in big general terms.
Maybe for commercial social media? But personally I prefer if people just post if they want to, and for the platform to not exploit them for profit. Money just brings in too many bad incentives from all sides. Honestly, the more I think about it the more I don't know how a for-profit social media can ever truly work, in a positive manner.
Real comrades share what was each other's private property
The whole point of Wayland to be a successor to X11 but not using X, made by the same devs that developed X11 to specifically move away from X. Backporting features would miss the whole point because devs left because adding new features to X was getting too difficult and messy according to them, due to how big and all-encompassing and inter-connected that protocol was.
And being punished for using Nvidia was Nvidia's fault, not Wayland's.
Both were simple problems with simple solutions, and they also weren't politicized. Climate change is maybe the hardest problem humanity has had to face so far, and it asks us to go directly against the economy we have set up here on earth. We require degrowth to truly stop climate change. Our economy demands the exact opposite.
Acid rain and ozone layer holes didn't require systemic change. Stopping climate change demands it.
That's not to say it won't happen. I'd absolutely love to see it happen. But it needs something more drastic than just positive thinking and individual changes in behaviour. It needs a borderline revolution.