IMO the problem is not optimism but either ignorance or fatalism and insanity: - Most people know (at least I hope so) that drastic change is urgent. Why Hope

IMO the problem is not optimism but either ignorance or fatalism and insanity: - Most people know (at least I hope so) that drastic change is urgent. Why Hope Is Dangerous When It Comes to Climate Change http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/07/why_climate_change_discussions_need_apocalyptic_thinking.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/0... - Most people are not willing to change and to let the government invest in change. Most people are used to inertia and more of the same. Drastic change and massive public investments in science and useful technology is not what most people are used to. Daily news bombard the people but not what is really important. Harmful military budgets are increased. Trump even proposed that NATO members should spend 4% of their GDP for harmful military. Animal products are still allowed. Politicians and their voters argue against electric cars because they are expensive and enough electricity is not yet delivered by wind and solar. They do not realize that all related industries and practices must change ASAP. Politicians and their voters enforce monetary austerity because public ownership and public investments for a different world is the worst that could possibly happen in their imagined world. Annual global fossil fuel subsidies were amounting to $5.3 trillion in 2015 (6.5% of global GDP). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16304867 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1... Why the 2C Target is Far Too High http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/2-degree-target.html http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/2-d... A degree by degree explanation of what will happen when the earth warms http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm