Climate change is probably happening, sure. But you’re deluding yourself if you think that we’re going to come up with a way to solve it systemically, or that anyone in power actually cares about the issue at all. The more likely outcome is that more scammy regulations are passed that don’t actually help anything except enrich government contractors and politicians while more and more negative externalities are pushed under the rug. Meanwhile the system is helped inch forward towards disaster by well-intentioned people who feel that they need to “do something.”

We cannot afford to do something, we need to focus on the most effective measures because political capital for that topic is not endless. You should also try not to increase other significant problems.