Climate change will continue to be the cover story for demands of self-sacrifice. Lots of 22 year olds currently think eating meat, owning a car, and traveling by plane are climate-irresponsible and have sworn off, or significantly reduced, doing so. Before too long, the argument will become that living in a house -- all the materials to build it, and especially the energy required to heat and cool it -- as opposed to a common-space dorm-like setting, is heavily wasteful, climate-unfriendly and selfish. This will suffice to eliminate any threat of protest. And if not, the powers that be will simply magnify other auxiliary stories that people actually do get out and protest about.