[juanbyrge]

To be fair I think the severity of climate change has only come into mainstream focus in the past 5-10 years. Just as one data point, when I was shopping for a car in 2012, I did not even consider CO2 emissions. Now, climate change is top of mind for me. I now own an electric car, stopped eating beef, mostly eliminated travel, etc... I'm not saying this will make a difference overall, but I imagine others feel similarly, and a lot of young people will hopefully be in a position to work on solving some of these problems.

[FranzFerdiNaN]

Thanks to fossil fuel companies like Exxon spending billions to confuse the general public, bribe politicians and do everything else needed to spread lies so they could keep their profits up. Exxons own research already confirmed climate change was caused by fossil fuels in the 1970s, yet they sat on it doing nothing.

The Kyoto Protocol was in 1997, but the US didn’t ratify it because the API managed to influence US politicians enough to cast doubt on the problem.

[cbHXBY1D]

We've known for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/clim...

[tech2]

Just because I've been holding on to this link for a while now - https://i.imgur.com/efbNO4X.jpg

Granted, NZ's a small country, but if it was known about there pre Great War, I suspect many people knew about it elsewhere too.

It is one of those things that until very recently had been quite easy to ignore though I suppose (and many still try even now).