[Clubber]

>We cannot let despair prevent us from acting.

When people feel a problem is hopeless, they cease to act. Climate alarmists trying to scare people into action with improbable outcomes, I feel, are being counter productive in this regard.

But the damage is already done. More alarmism (which is almost guaranteed) will be even more counter productive where people will just tune out.

[SuoDuanDao]

I quite agree. I'm a longtime environmentalist, and when climate change first became a major story I was all for it because CO2 emissions are an excellent proxy for pollution and resource depletion. Now I feel like what should be an integrative approach to a hairball of multiple wicked problems has been simplified to an obtuse marketing campaign, driven by the idea that if enough people agree on the scope of the problem they'll suddenly all pull in the same direction and we'll be most of the way to a solution.

I hate to say it, but I feel that climate change has become a distraction from doing real and necessary environmental work.

[breakyerself]

I find it hard to believe the real damage is from alarmism and not denialism and luke warmerism

[bryanlarsen]

People oversimplify to a binary. Yes, it's pretty much impossible to halt climate change at 1.5 degrees. So therefore they think we should do nothing -- why bother if it's going to happen anyway? But it's not anywhere close to binary: the more we do the less change that happens - we can't stop it from happening, but we can definitely stop it from getting worse.