It’s one reason we’ve had trouble solving climate change (I wouldn’t go so far as to say we can’t). Two more reasons: 1. It’s a classic tragedy of the commons

It’s one reason we’ve had trouble solving climate change (I wouldn’t go so far as to say we can’t). Two more reasons: 1. It’s a classic tragedy of the commons, where many actors, at the individual, corporate, and national level, have incentives to worsen the problem even if nearly everyone would benefit if they all behaved differently. 2. The climate is a complex system, so it’s hard to educate the public about how it works, and easy for bad faith actors or pseudoscientific cranks to obfuscate the discussion.