[hashkb]

We need the pessimism. Irrational exuberance clearly doesn't work.

[delecti]

I have never seen anything remotely resembling exuberance around climate change. Everything I've seen is either pessimism or denial.

[hashkb]

I'm talking about much more than climate change. Failure to cooperate, anti-intellectualism, and innate hatred of each other (among other flaws) are what will sink us.