Yup. Climate change is too big, and the changes we would need to make to save ourselves from it are too drastic, and the consequences are "too distant". (Though we're already experiencing the consequences and have been for decades, they have come upon us gradually. We are boiling frogs.)
On top of that, there are plenty of people who justify their inaction by either assuming that humanity is going to spin up some last-minute miracle solution (these are the "technology will always prevail!" folks), or that they will personally devise some last-minute solution for themselves ("I will escape to a climate-controlled New Zealand bunker!")
Climate change is such a big problem precisely because of the way it is enabled by our short-sighted, self-serving nature.
Yup. Climate change is too big, and the changes we would need to make to save ourselves from it are too drastic, and the consequences are "too distant". (Though we're already experiencing the consequences and have been for decades, they have come upon us gradually. We are boiling frogs.)
On top of that, there are plenty of people who justify their inaction by either assuming that humanity is going to spin up some last-minute miracle solution (these are the "technology will always prevail!" folks), or that they will personally devise some last-minute solution for themselves ("I will escape to a climate-controlled New Zealand bunker!")
Climate change is such a big problem precisely because of the way it is enabled by our short-sighted, self-serving nature.
...anyway.