I think it's important to avoid overly simplistic, binary interpretations about politics or action from dominating the conversation. I think it's a form of bike

I think it's important to avoid overly simplistic, binary interpretations about politics or action from dominating the conversation. I think it's a form of bike-shedding, it's very easy, and accessible to vaguely blame "the media" or "politicians" for the cause of problems, which is not only inaccurate in who it blames (both The Guardian and Rebel News/OAN are media, both are not equally to blame), and also doesn't engage in actually finding data and evidence to support the argument. At any rate, with regards to climate change, it's important to note that actual progress has been made in mitigating climate change, it's not enough to hit the 1.5C target, but we'd be in an even worse place without it. In 2014 the world was on track to hit 4C by 2100, now its at 3C, (primarily due to rapid growth in clean energy). More reduction is possible in the intervening years, and the reduction is important in cutting out the more catastrophic effects of climate change. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/25/climate/world-climate-pledges-cop26.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/25/climate/world...