The problem is that we’ve been kicking that can down the road so long (and now, for at least four more years, and likely indefinitely) that there is no more time for “one crisis at a time”. We’ve tacitly signed off on a +2 °C mean global temperature above the pre-Industrial baseline, likely before 2050 (and maybe significantly earlier), and probably something around +3.6 °C by end of century if not before. There is effectively nothing we can actually do to stop this because the world has given a collective shrug and just mocks the “Just Stop Oil” protestors for throwing soup on paintings (which is pretty dumb but at least gets them in the news, unlike the legions of climatologists and cryosphere scientists projecting increasingly dire warnings that are totally ignored as a kind of freak sideshow to all of the oil and gas deals going on that the COP meetings) but we should at least be taking measures to improve resilience and maintain knowledge and capability in the increasingly likely collapse of industrial society.
But, of course, we aren’t because “One crisis at a time”, and we are frankly focused on the wrong and mostly manufactured crises of culture wars and immigration, not climate change, erosion of scientific literacy, or applying an economic model with a tag line other than “Drill, baby, drill!” Basically, we are completely fucked at this point, not for a want of a nail but for melting down all the nails to make a crown for an idiot king.
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