two things can be true here. our model of incentivizing change is still steeped in a crudely market driven and politically corrupt set of levers. that's the glo

two things can be true here. our model of incentivizing change is still steeped in a crudely market driven and politically corrupt set of levers. that's the global system we've inherited. the other thing that is true is that the problem is not about climate change (a catch phrase the fossil fuel industry has trained us to use so that weak arguments can fall back on 'but there's always been change!'). we're talking about climate destabilization, of proven anthropogenic causes. no we cannot precisely predict what the tipping points are or how bad it will be, but we have decades of research showing that it is human caused and operating on a trajectory unlike anything before the industrial era. and we know it is worsening and the stakes for civilization are high. how we rise to this challenge today, with our current tools, involves investment human and capital. we can hope that those investments are allocated wisely. we can expect that there will be charlatans and waste, as there has been any time a complex problem has been tackled.