Promoting ways to protect ourselves from global warming instead of preventing dilutes the popular rhetoric of "reduce emissions now or we're doomed!" If there's

Promoting ways to protect ourselves from global warming instead of preventing dilutes the popular rhetoric of "reduce emissions now or we're doomed!" If there's enough publicity given to your kind of idea, then people might relax and not worry enough. Without them worrying enough, they might not do anything to prevent it. That kind of makes you wonder why try to prevent it anyway. So to answer "why can't we do it now?" We can. We just don't want to talk about it yet because sheeples.