Climate is changing like it has always changed. How much human activity influences the change remains up to discussion if you ask me, or better asked are al those billions we throw at it worth it. Looking to everything very black and white; would it be better for our health and environment if we have cleaner energy? The answer is obvious. Does it justify the burden on our generation on a relatively small timeframe in which we try to change our whole system where we are dependent on fossil fuels? Personally I doubt that, it has to stay realistic.
Some things don’t change for the better, like the tax on plastic or unnecessary costs for the normal civilian. Or subsidies who are really unfair, electrical vehicles who are heavily subsidised here, but obviously are financially out of reach for people with a lesser to normal income, while fossil fuels are double taxed here. It benefits the higher earners in our society so far.
Other things are for the better. Better air quality, becoming energy independent, better isolation for houses, innovation and more space for nature (more trees and stuff). I really support those things.
I think that the mass hysteria is one of the pitfalls in this debate. The world won’t end if it’s a few degrees hotter. In general humans and megafauna flourished during warmer periods, look to the medieval warm period, or the Holocene Thermal Optimum, the period where human civilisation started after the Younger Dryas. Looking to climate on a bigger scale its definitely easier to live during a warmer period than a colder. Imagine living during a ice age. Than there’s the stuff I debated earlier, If we expect more water, go and invest more to reinforce the infrastructure instead of lobbying my house into more isolation. Safety definitely goes first
The monotheism is annoying though. ‘This has to happen and every argument against it gets ridiculed’. It happened during covid, it happens mostly against right politicians (at least where I live) and it’s the same in this debate. I would like to see a more open discussion about it on tv