my point was to emphasize that we had agency in these decisions. we didn't do our best and get beat, we purposely chose not to compete. this isn't me trying to recapture some amount of pride like the guy at your local bar who keeps insisting he could've been a bad ass in the army but he would've beaten up all his superior officers first, it's me making sure that everyone realizes that this was a conscious choice to sell out the next generation in order to pad the fossil fuel industry's already record-high profits.