> We deserve to burn. As quite a bit of a doomer myself, I think this attitude is extremely dangerous and really an incorrect view of the situation. Blame is i

> We deserve to burn. As quite a bit of a doomer myself, I think this attitude is extremely dangerous and really an incorrect view of the situation. Blame is inevitable when facing despair, but I think it's not a great idea to turn this into an issue about blaming yourself or others. Human beings are terrible at long term risk/reward reasoning. But this is a pretty expected consequence of any evolved species. There is zero pressure in the evolutionary system to encourage a species to develop the ability to both reason about very long term events, and act on them. Evolutionary forces just don't respond to things on this time scale. Climate change has always had the problem that the easier it was to solve, the more uncertain we were about it's effects. In 1900 we could have easily just stopped progressing, learned to become sustainable and avoided climate change at very little cost. But how would anyone seriously believe and be concerned about an existential threat to their great, great grandchildren? As the existential risk of climate change becomes more obvious, the cost to avoid it increases dramatically. There is no stopping climate change now, and even limiting its impact (which we can always do) would require a massive disruption to our way of life. We're fighting wars right now to access more fossil fuels, we aren't ready to seriously start keeping them in the ground. Our tragedy as a species is that we can see how to avoid climate change but are unable to act on it by our nature. If anything us all being "fucked" should evoke a sense of pathos. We're no different than any other living organism exposed to sources of non-renewable, cheap, high density energy. The yeast that die making the alcohol in our beer suffer the same local climate catastrophe as we will.