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It's time for the dialog to move on from 'proving climate change', to what 'we're going to do about it'.

Global heating has been thought to be occurring for longer than anyone has been alive. It's been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt for over forty years. There is no way for a disinterested person to look at the evidence and conclude this is anything other than a man-made crisis. Problem is a whole lot of the public doesn't care about the truth.

I don't know how a democratic society can deal with half its population living in a fantasy world. My guess is it cannot.

This is part of it. We must beat the drum continuously to drown out those making their own music.

We're all going to be bonked on the head with this info literally and figuratively until long after we attempt to implement any solutions.

Yet, if you don't keep the drum beat up then you start hearing the people not playing along, chanting Tonga, fake news, and solar warming.

From my study of the issue and of human nature, I've come to the conclusion that we're going to "get our kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames", to borrow the words of Jim Morrison.

Do what you can where you are with what you have, but also try to prepare so that when people start dying you’re not one of them.

Clean energy and net zero trajectories are improving, but we’re experiencing today decisions from decades ago. Things are going to get worse before they get better.

You know, I'd really rather not be the perpetual Debby Downer of HN, but as a millennial, all I've ever heard about the large problems facing my generation is that they're going to get worse before they get better. I've pretty much concluded that things are going to get worse before they get worse. I think live every day like it's your last (because it might be) is about as much optimism as I've got.

I agree with you that its gonna get worse before it gets worse. I'm here mostly to enjoy the continual moderation (flagged and dead) of posters who point out the inevitable, predicted violence that climate changes' pressures are going to force out of our already imbalanced, fractured and well armed society (speaking as an American.)

Its the silencing of the alarm bells across the commercialized internet, and I think it means that when shit suddenly goes south you're gonna have this clueless middle asking "how did this ever happen?!"

It seems a bit pointless, yet it is motivating none the less to try to answer that question when its asked by folks. Starting with, because you live in a bubble that was more interested in selling you things than the scary and unfortunate truth.

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