Fenton urges the climate community to speak of pollution – a word everyone gets – and to settle on the image of a “blanket of pollution trapping heat on Earth”. Every oil and gas emission makes that blanket thicker – and all that trapped heat helps cause floods and start fires, he says.
I didn’t finish the article because I got of reading the same 5 points about “hudurr, humans are dumb and can’t conceive of catastrophe” because I don’t have a single friend in the real world who isn’t harrowingly aware that they will likely be alive when the world becomes uninhabitable, would love to do something about it, but has to put food on the table in the meantime.
It’s the world’s corporations and governments that are to blame for this, not individual people who just “dont get it”.
I’m pretty sure most people “get it” now. We are entering an era of consequences. The issue is really our broken political system which prevents our institutions from taking action, and unchecked neoliberalism, which has the express intent of disempowering people.