We look to our "business leaders" to bring us prosperity, which is thought to be cooked into the system.
The Science is Complicated
Climate science is not easy to understand, and the possible effects are bewildering.
Climate change is like a slow progressive illness, without the drama of a stroke or heart attack or even a fast cancer. There's always been bad weather, whether hurricanes and typhoons, deluges, droughts, heat waves, "dust bowls," floods, hail, cyclones, ice ages or the opposite, melting glaciers. The most scientists can say is that greenhouse gases increase the frequency or severity. In response, we feel like saying, "get back to me when the situation is totally unambiguous."
Fossil Fuels Have Given Us So Much
Whatever the self--interest of the fossil fuel firms, use of these fuels is widespread in the whole society, whether in cars, in furnaces, or in the electricity produced with coal or gas. In addition to our homes, we rely on street lights, traffic signals, radio and TV broadcasting, products made of fossil fuels.
It's Not My Problem
Each generation has its challenges and must deal with them, so no need to act now, precipitously. Let the kids deal with it later, if there's a problem.
We Lack Forms of Action
There are no obvious "forms of action" for individual citizens. What should they do? Try individually to cut down on use of carbon-based fuels? Have fewer or no children? What about the many who won't??
Already Too Late?
Some people are saying we're already doomed, so why bother to do anything but grief-work? Since people die, it's good to learn about grief in any case, but one issue that tends to get lost is what else could help during the long period of crisis.
How Do We Get Every Main Actor to Agree?
If it seems almost impossible to imagine action in one country, at least in the U.S., how can we get other countries to agree and keep their word?
Would Disrupt the Economy or Cost Me Money
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