One of the reasons people are bad at tackling something like the changing climate is that the subject has been turned into something closely resembling a religi

One of the reasons people are bad at tackling something like the changing climate is that the subject has been turned into something closely resembling a religion and as such has gained adherents spreading the true faith and detractors denying it, with almost no sane discussion being possible between the two. This is a sad state of things as it leads to totally illogical actions on both sides. Combine this with the clear and present danger from commercial interests trying to gain from either keeping the status quo or from selling new and often largely unproven - or even proven ineffective - ways to 'fight climate change' and the stage was set for the current situation. This situation has occurred earlier in history, an example being the attitude towards nuclear power. While some point at the accidents in Three Miles Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima as examples of why nuclear power is the spawn of Satan and should be banished from this earth, others see those same accidents in the light of the stalled development of nuclear technology due to the actions of those who do everything to stall those developments leading to ancient reactors being kept on-line because their successors have been stalled or cancelled.