No they can't. I mean, legally they have the authority to do so. But congress is pretty broken. By the time a congress is elected that can effectively legislate a solution to climate change, it will be too late.

Giving a broken legislative body the sole responsibility of literally saving the world is a really, really dumb idea.

We don't have time for that. By the time a congress is elected that is willing to make laws that curb emissions, it will be too late. So much damage will already have been done.

Pushing responsibility to literally save the world onto a broken legislative body is idiotic.

But "save your changes before running a command that can clobber" is a pretty good strategy.

Agreed though. I always start with teaching people. If you git add + git commit + git branch BACKUP everything you can very safely do anything you want. If you get confused it's trivial to get to a clean state by git reset --hard.

If you give people a way to get to a clean slate it removes a significant amount of the learning curve. In my experience, push/pull/fetch/log/diff are easy enough it's only really merge/rebase management that gets people caught up. Giving people a short fuck up -> undo -> retry cycle lets people learn pretty quick.

And you are making the assumption that acting in accordance with the market is automatically a net virtue.