Now that we have seen, as shown in this space last week, that climate change is real, man-made, dangerous, what, I have been asked, are we going to do about it?

The short answer is something, rather than nothing. Yes, the Earth is well past the 1.5 degree Celsius average temperature rise that was widely seen, and is, the tipping point for global warming and the consequent weather and ocean-rise factors from which there is no real return, at least for hundreds of years.

But the arguments for still doing nothing in the present and future just because we did nothing before are logically full of holes.

“California wildfires burn as much carbon into the atmosphere as cars and trucks and natural-gas turbines!” we are told. Well, let’s then work on dampening down wildfires while we’re at it. O

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