This can be said about global warming back in the 1990s. Experts are working on it and it isn’t really an issue for the average joe so don’t worry about it.

You are not wrong that it isn’t a near term concern but I witnessed the lack of progress on global warming in the 1980s and 1990s and do not completely trust experts to make progress by themselves without a larger awareness at the societal level that there is an issue. In many ways the problem isn’t experts but at some point you need politicians involved and they only really react when the voters care. And thus you need the average joe to care so that polticians care and act.

I think that this is the global warming-like issue of the next 3 decades.

The author of this piece basically concluding that there was no issue. She didn’t conclude that it wasn’t a concern for the average joe but that there wasn’t an issue. That is wrong.

There was just a story on HN (now dead) about 400 private jets flying the politicians and other rich people down to the climate change conference in egypt (COP27).

It would be a lot easier to make people care, if the people speaking the loudest about climate change would actually behave in the way they want 'others' to behave.

Worse than COP26 (118 jets)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/11/05/118-...

    qualified people are already working on it

And many (most?) of them see declining population as a net benefit for the earths' climate change issues. So at best, they have conflicting motivations.