
The simple fact that Earth’s climate is irreversibly broken and we face a miserable future of baking to death as much of the world becomes uninhabitable is just one of those things you try not to think about too much.
Environmentalists had their shot and were steamrollered by the inexorable march of capitalism, which demands short-term growth at any cost. Every country and corporation has spent decades kicking the can down the road on climate change, figuring that the next generation will figure things out.