This is the huge problem with the focus on climate change: a generation of “environmentalists” is growing up who don’t understand the importance and fragility o

This is the huge problem with the focus on climate change: a generation of “environmentalists” is growing up who don’t understand the importance and fragility of natural ecosystems and their organisms. Our primary objective is not to keep our planet within certain temperature ranges. Our primary objective is to not irreversibly destroy the natural world. We must succeed; failure is unacceptable. People are addressing climate change with afforestation projects using non-native trees and all sorts of other stuff that doesn’t help save natural ecosystems. If the subset of people who think they “care about the environment” spends the next couple of decades supporting projects like that, and taking their eyes off the crisis of habitat destruction, then a terrible tragedy will result the shame of which humanity will never escape and which will make the world inherited by our children a pathetic memory of what it should have been, for ever.