You seem to know me very well or is it you're referring to my my kind when you're claiming I wouldn't listen. (And if we're being honest, I'm confident a fair few people will have said that about you. A little more justifiably, too.)
Technologies, less polluting? Let me guess, you'd include HEP dams (that flood vast areas in their construction but produce green energy thereafter) and wind turbines in that. We'll pretend like Fukushima never happened, shall we? The wind turbines that the world's ubermaniac (Mr Trump) is against? Did he really use the expression, 'ugly industrial' in describing them? But then he calls coal beautiful, clean coal, doesn't he? I'm pretty sure he'll be the first person on the planet to have described coal in such favourable terms. With coal - as I'm sure you know, you dig it and you burn it. Hardly high-tech, would you say? You create eyesore killer slag heaps and then your chimneys bellow out black smoke?
Is that progress?
I think you're being a little optimistic, even if these new technologies you speak of (without going into) are so clean and green. You think everyone will get behind them? Even capitalistic pigs whose bottom line is usually profit? There'll be no swines cutting corners, cutting through red tape to sneakily cheat the system to gain on their competitors? That's so unlike man, isn't it! :D The technology will be shared the world over and the developing world will be helped (in an ethical sense, not the euphemistic sense) to embrace it? Because until everyone gets on board (an impossible dream, I'd say, unfortunately, the way things stand), the battle to save life on earth can't really get started. Can it?
Deep down, I'm expecting you know and will agree with half of what I've written. Maybe you've just given up and don't really care about the future of the planet beyond your own lifetime. I just hope you're not 'bitter and twisted' and rejecting greener views for that reason. I'm sure you won't be, though.
If we really do wish to address environmental issues, we'll need to alter our approach considerably and consider other fronts, not just the technological one. We're almost certainly going to have to up our game socially and politically, also.
Remember Paris? And was it Pittsburgh? ;) It's a good idea to start electing sane politicians once more. Would you not say?
Incidentally, apologies that the thread's gone off on something of a tangent, @dwinblood. It was hardly my intention.