What surprises me:
We spend endless amounts of time debating the consequences of climate change.
Yet somehow we behave as if climate change itself is already a settled chapter, something previous generations caused, leaving us only to cope with the aftermath.
The reality is that we’re only at the beginning of the impacts. What’s coming will be far worse than what we’ve seen so far.
And much of it is still preventable, if we finally decide to act.
Instead, we’ve developed this remarkable ability to file each new disaster under “unfortunate, but inevitable” and then carry on marching cheerfully toward the cliff.
We spend endless amounts of time debating the consequences of climate change.
Yet somehow we behave as if climate change itself is already a settled chapter, something previous generations caused, leaving us only to cope with the aftermath.
The reality is that we’re only at the beginning of the impacts. What’s coming will be far worse than what we’ve seen so far.
And much of it is still preventable, if we finally decide to act.
Instead, we’ve developed this remarkable ability to file each new disaster under “unfortunate, but inevitable” and then carry on marching cheerfully toward the cliff.