There is this kind of milling around that grates me to no end. The climate is changing faster and in a way that we undeniably contribute to and people still are

There is this kind of milling around that grates me to no end. The climate is changing faster and in a way that we undeniably contribute to and people still are like “hang on a minute there’s a bunch of research to do here”! It’s like if I went to the doctor, they find out I have a cancer, then the doctor says “wait up let’s see how quickly it is actually growing”. Yes there is no strong evidence about “baseline climate change” but whatever is going on now is 1. Undeniably orders of magnitude faster than any core sample record of climate change 2. Undeniably spurned on by the huge amount of carbon we have been burning And yet reducing carbon output is not a priority. This is more a comment than a response to your comment, so please don’t take it as an argument. You just reminded me about this particular bit. It just kills me that people who sometimes are otherwise willing to do a lot in terms of charity hit climate change and all of a sudden start questioning that it is a thing. I can’t believe that a genuine existential threat was politicised. You’re right about it all though, representatives not being persuasive, perhaps framing the problem poorly. Lastly, in recent years we have seen progress thanks to renewables. It’s all because fossil fuel costs are increasing while renewables decreased. Economic incentives would absolutely have worked at the expense of the fossil fuel industry. I wonder how differently things could have gone