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It ain’t over till it’s over.
Although we understand physics and chemistry and know that we are destroying the Earth’s climate with fossil fuels, we don’t know if we are past the point of no return. We don’t know if it’s still possible to stabilize the climate at some unpleasant but livable level. There is a difference between an unpleasant environment and a hellscape.
Some say it’s too late. They say we are at a point where a hellscape is inevitable and nothing we can do will stop that. And that might be the case. But nobody knows.
What do we do facing a huge challenge and this great unknown? Do we give up? Or fight like hell?
I know what I do. I fight like hell. Why wouldn’t I?
Reasons Not to Fight
If we’ve already lost, of course, it makes less sense to fight. Things could happen, perhaps, to suddenly convince even me that the game is over. For example, the oceans could start emitting huge quantities of methane, very quickly bringing the end. Much like the end of the dinosaurs who died not from a meteor, but because the meteor created atmospheric effects blotting out the sun, and brought doom within a few weeks or months — after a very successful 165 million year run.
