I agree with most of your post. I single out this quote because I perceive an even more nefarious process. People don't necessarily pretend it (global warming) doesn't exist, but people like to pretend things that don't solve the problem, do in fact, solve the problem. So people think that re-usable shopping bags and LED light bulbs are the answer, while they hop into their 2 ton F250's or Escalades to drive to and from the grocery store and feel that's just fine. Not to mention their 3000 square foot houses and all that jazz. Don't even get me started on carbon offset schemes celebrities like to talk about while they go on about how enlightened and concerned about the planet they are despite flying all over the place in their private jets.
How are all these massive forest fires working out for the those tree planting carbon offset do gooders? Most of those trees would have been planted anyways by the by. Did they pay again after all their saplings went up in smoke? Of course not. But hey, their conscious is assauged so no more thought needs to be put into it.
This is the kind of thing that gets me worked up. If you say something is a priority to you, act like it. Don't consume at vastly higher levels than me and tell me I'm the one who doesn't get it.
Since we have went down this road I will add a few very inconvenient truths to this. In other words all you have said is still heavy sugarcoating of the topic. The truth is that in the so called Global South we have about 100 dictators and autocrats that basically don't give a shit about this topic. Especially since whole social structures that they have build are dependent on cheap dirty energy (or selling that energy to everyone else). What is the actual elephant in the room and pretty much no one wants to open this box, since in that case scope of the problem goes completely through the roof and into the clouds.
Yes, climate change is one very serious and dangerous problem. However when you sum all of our efforts to tackle the problem our result still looks like this.
In other words this is because we are ignoring the elephant in the room, which is the industrialization of the global south. Which as a process started somewhere in the 1970s and that can be seen on the graph Thus the whole media hysteria over the topic is basically pointless since not only that in the end nothing is being achieved but in the big picture things are getting exponentially worse. What is because those little tweaks in the first world evidently can't compensate what is going on in the developing world. What is the trend that can't really be reversed because global south has way too weak democracy and institutions to be able to make change in how things are being handled. In a sense this is exactly why all global conversations and deals on the topic in the end don't have solid conclusion and it all ends with "we will do what we can".
Europe tried really hard to set the example that others should follow but in the end all that it got is moving of industry into less developed countries. While at the same time being seen as so weak that "someone" even decided to start a major war on it's borders. What basically means that you can't solve climate change without overthrowing quite a number of dictators. Since that is basically the only way that you can make sure that green new deal exists everywhere on reasonable scale. However since typical environmentalists go crazy even at the mention of Iraq there is little that can be done in this area. Since in order to make sure green new deal exist everywhere you basically need to repeat Iraq a few dozen times all across the world and hope that there are no mushroom clouds as a result.
So long story short: This is exactly why I said to the people here that they should start preparing their own life for major climate mess. Since it is becoming completely evident that the problem wouldn't get fixed in time. As a matter of fact the odds are that we are already in the scenario of run away green house effect where even with 0 emissions the feedbacks continue to fuel climate change as it runs out of control. What is basically considered to be the point of no return. However that is the scenario that we will evidently experience with the emissions shown on presented graphs. Since this trend means that global net zero wouldn't happen for many many decades. However that is just too dark that they will say it openly on live TV.
Submitted for your consideration.
