>We could’ve started fighting climate change in 1971 Also implies that no one was doing anything at all. It actually is kind of hard to make any progress figh

>We could’ve started fighting climate change in 1971 Also implies that no one was doing anything at all. It actually is kind of hard to make any progress fighting, especially single-handedly. I was just a teenager but at least I resolved not to contribute more than a small fraction to the problem compared to average consumers. Over a number of decades this has added up to conserving what amounts to more than a few lifetimes worth of waste. Committing to a lifetime of alternative energy research was also a no-brainer for me. I don't have my whole life ahead of me any more, but if I can deploy some nice bits of 20th century progress it would be worth more than the money I earned along the line improving my abilities. And the 21st century was potentially more advanced. Interestingly, ERE was one of my employer's clients back in 1980 when I was pushing the state-of-the-art in CO2 gas analysis using early microprocessor-controlled instrumentation.