I have been a climate change researcher and educator for 30 years. You could say that’s a lifetime; during this time my children were born and raised to adults. My older child was born while Al Gore was campaigning as the first climate presidential candidate. If you’d told me then that we’d spend billions of dollars to fight climate change in the coming decades, I would’ve rested easy. Surely investments of that scale would fix the problem.
Alas, we have not made meaningful progress. We still have no durable climate policy. The prospects for fixing the climate problem remain as elusive today in 2025 as a full generation ago.
