Even if we switched entirely to renewables tomorrow we'd still be ultrafucked by the mechanisms we have unleashed from the past 200 years of industrialization.

Even if we switched entirely to renewables tomorrow we'd still be ultrafucked by the mechanisms we have unleashed from the past 200 years of industrialization. That is what is so upsetting about the way politicians behave: we can't even get them to sign on to to the most minimal steps necessary to halt the progress of global warming. Discussing the steps needed to actually fix the problem, or in some way figure out how to live with it, (which is all people are going to be doing 50 years from now), is completely beyond the pale.