The problem of Iran can be made to go away by either a blockade, that nobody wants, or by not buying their oil.
Put it this way to the American people: Stop buying gasoline and Iran will go froam a menace to starvation faster than we can imagine.
The same will not work with North Korea. Their people are already starving and their puny "nuclear" test may prove to have been a non-nuclear one, after all.
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Public participation is essential.
The people must learn the plan and support it with their own purchase of electric cars.
Without oil sales, the price of oil will drop and Global Warming will hit the Middle East quite hard. They do have oil and might be tempted to put their cities inside a canopy. Their energy is so cheap, they might do farming inside air conditioned space.
But, no doubt, they will feel the power of Global Warming first, and Africa second. Nigeria is probably the first to feel it, should we plan to help them by next year?
To conclude that This, call it "B", will happen if we do "A" happens requires that
1. We be reasonably open minded because, like they say, "Preconceptions guide our interpretation of our Perceptions of reality." Some studies showed that we can actually ignore vital truths because we strongly "Wish" it were otherwise.
No need to mention the Flat Earth Society, UFOs, etc., or whether your home state is better than my Home State of Texas, there is no set of, what you call "facts" that you could present to me that would make me change my mind.
History is the record of a long sequence of ideas that were abandoned along the way, without a Requiem to those who fought for those, we now call, "False ideas." I was in Selma, two weeks after The March, in uniform and talked with residents, all of them cordial and, possibly, stoic. It is not the ideas that changed since then, but the people that thought they were Immutable Truths. Some even assign the author, without the benefit of study, consideration or research.