> The bad thing is is that it’s too late.

Too late for what exactly? Majority of climate scientists agree the situation is dire, but there are many actions that can be taken to reduce the short-term and long-term impact, via both adaptation and reducing carbon emissions.

When climate change was far away enough that we could have solved it with incremental changes, skeptics in the media mocked and denied it.

Now things have got bad enough that we would need more radical changes to keep to 1.5-2 degrees. But radical changes are just the kind of thing that swing voters don’t like, so we probably won’t do them.

I doubt we will come together and implement radical economic changes or geo-engineering solutions. More likely in my opinion is every country for itself, the rise of new, authoritarian governments and 3+ degrees of heating. I would take some kind of corporate tech bro dystopia.

>Majority of climate scientists agree the situation is dire, but there are many actions that can be taken to reduce the short-term and long-term impact, via both adaptation and reducing carbon emissions.

Am I the only one thinking that it reminds me of a bunch of priests in ancient time who claim to speak to the gods and tell us what we shall do? I'm no climate denier but I hate how everything is framed to induce panic and fear.

Well, there were books and papers warning about the societal, emotional, economic, and environmental impacts of a technocratic society as far back as 50-100 years ago. Don't you think that a little fear and panic, at this point, are justified?

And aren't there enough religious people inducing fear and panic into society still today?

I once heard that you will not meet a more dejected and depressed person than a climate scientist. Imagine warning about things for literally decades or your entire life, being ignored the entire time, and only to be asked in the present "why didn't you warn us?!" or "what's going on?!".

Fear is justified because we honestly don't know about some of these things. Dynamic systems with bifurcations, chaotic behavior, and tipping points are difficult to understand even when they're laid out in front of you, much less when you're trying to figure out what the dynamic system is (in the case of the climate and environment, although we do know a lot). Does it even make sense to continually push the boundaries to see what we can get away with? Do humans realize that this Earth was not made for them and that there were times that humans could not be supported by the Earth's environment? In our daily lives, we stress certain behavior of planning and restraint, but we are incapable of doing so collectively.

Literally the simplest thing in the world to do is to restore lawns and grass areas with native plants (wildflowers, bushes, trees, etc.), and yet no one is doing it. In fact, we're still destroying habitat. And then people write articles like "where are the bees and butterflies?".

I believe earth will survive anyway, and if we die in the process so be it. Either we find a way to be in harmony with Earth (not consuming more than what it can generate), or we die. Currently we are in a path where the majority of us are going to die, that is self regulation from Earth.

Restoring lawns with native plants is just like sacrificing your elder child to appease Gods, you thing it will help where in fact we just need to go back to the a sustainable equilibrium (which noone knows precisely).

It's never too late to stop making things worse. And much worse awaits us if we don't change.

Just to clarify, I don't believe it's too late to make changes, and I am trying to do my part. But it's too late for these changes to prevent what we're currently and about to go through. The climate and environment are massive, dynamic systems.

It's just dangerous. For example, native plants are absolutely imperative. There is very little movement for this. All of my neighbors are cutting down trees, replacing it with lawns that do nothing but sit there (and for this summer die or take on disproportionate amounts of water) and also plant non-native plants that also require a lot of water.

I planted native plants, but the new plantings are struggling due to the severe drought we are going through (with not much end in sight). It's clear that the native plants that are doing well are helping, because the pollinator activity is insane around them, but it's not enough. One household out of a thousand isn't going to help. This is the systematic nature of things that show this can't be solved by flipping a switch. We need drastic measures, and I just do not see us enacting solutions until things become very serious.

I think many underestimate just how short-term humans are. It's never too late until it is.