Saving What Future We Have Left
We can still reduce the size of the disaster
The future we have is ugly. Pay attention to climate science and what escalating disasters do to human politics, and you will realize that our future sucks. That is the reality that we have created for ourselves.
This is not a lament but a statement of fact. The numbers are changing as the reality becomes inescapable, but the effects of climate change are still minimized.
The problem is still one of the priorities shown in an age-related survey.
We have a genuine set of choices that, if we fail to act, could make whole sections of our planet look like the Gaza Strip post-Israeli genocide.
While broad acceptance of the climate disaster is growing, failure to understand the magnitude of the progressive polycrisis triggered by climate change risks panic as the crisis escalates.
When people feel threatened by things they do not understand, they become irrational and angry. As we have seen…
