Please, I remember we would all die a horrible death due to a nuclear armageddon. When that didn't happen, we would all suffocate because all the forests would

Please, I remember we would all die a horrible death due to a nuclear armageddon. When that didn't happen, we would all suffocate because all the forests would die due to acidrain. Then we would all die of skin cancer due to the ozone-hole. I actually remember the nuclear effects from Tjernobyl, glad I didn't die then. In all of those cases they were massive problems that took massive efforts to fix. Have you heard of SO2 scrubbers? The Clean Air Act? The Montreal Protocol? The bunch of dead liquidators in Chernobyl? For that matter you missed tetraethyl lead gasoline additives, dioxins, asbestos, and cigarettes. There are too many massive problems and too frequently there are greedy (evil?) people fighting to keep the status quo. What's different is that global warming has been blunted by icecap melting, ocean warming, and ocean thermal expansion. We've used up our budget, and it will get abruptly worse. The sheer quantity of energy is beyond any prior problem humanity has ever created and you can't bargain with thermodynamics. Now it's our turn to deal with a problem, like previous generations did in the examples you mentioned.