Exactly, instead of treating climate change as an apocalyptic event, the entire world need to band together and tackle this unique challenge. We can enable this by spreading education and awareness, and do our part to slow down climate change.
Reading comments across the internet, I get the distinct impression that people would prefer to see the world completely collapse vs. accept that the next couple hundred years will be tough but survivable (as a species), requiring collective sacrifice. I suppose the former outcome is aesthetically "cleaner" or is somehow pleasingly poetic. Perhaps it's just fashionable to care even less than your friends.
No. Our past collective actions will cost the lives of millions, perhaps billions of people in the coming centuries. But this isn't justification for giving up. Get involved. Do not go silently.
Here's a possibly encouraging data point. When I announced I'd be leaving my 9-year tenure as a dev at a (non-climate-related) software company to go back to school so I will more effectively contribute to the climate effort, I got universal encouragement. From within the company as well as from outside. People _do_ care.
It costs me nothing to congratulate you on your effort, and I'm glad you're doing something - that's less responsibility on me.
I think everyone else should get an EV or ride a bicycle, thus leaving me to drive my 8 cylinder muscle car.
OK, I'm being cynical for effect, but I see this hypocrisy all day long. "I'm all for your change, as long as the change doesn't affect me."
We should, but won't, collectively act on climate. Because the rich countries have too much to lose. And the rich and powerful in those countries have too much to lose.
In the US, one of the biggest contributers to climate change, it has become a political issue. There's a reason the US exited the Paris Accords.
To be clear, I think we should act, individually and collectively. I applaud you for setting an example. But I dont believe we _will_ act. The coming change is inevitable.
The same could be said about the pandemic we just went through, and it appears many are simply incapable of banding together.
It will not work.
But nevertheless, I agee, we must stop pretending that life will end and we must stop run around like headless chicken pretending we COULD stop it IF. We wont stop it, we might slow it down, but it is already here and it will hit us harder as nobody is going to sacrifice his wealth for it. We must stop finding solutions for how to deal with it.