[Edit by Admin - Removed response to deleted post]
What I struggle with is how people with a science or engineering background can't seem to accept that climate change, whether it is man made or not, is happening. I am fed up of reading why proposals, alternatives, different ways of behaving won't work, without ever an alternative/counter proposal.
In my experience, people tend to fall, generally, into two categories..
1. People who are generally negative and have an overall draining effect on your energy. At times they can be great fun, inventive and brilliant, particularly on subjects they are passionate about, but in the overall balance, they're not.
2. People who generally are positive, open, outgoing, constructive and a pleasure to be around. They may have times when they are down, but they tend to recover quickly, will reach out for help and always seem to come up with another way of looking at things.
My mother in law falls into the first category. Very hard to get along with, tries to be positive but is generally negative. I have spent 30 years trying to change or enlighten her and given up. Now I tend to ignore the bs that she often spouts. A great example was to describe a west facing window as getting the sunlight all day long!
I try to spend my time, in real life and online, with people who fall into the second category.
If we accept that climate change is happening and accelerating, why would we choose to do nothing about it, unless we have truly no care for the next generation of humans, the non human occupants of our planet or the future in general? There is no climate lottery that we might win that will sort everything out.
What makes us think that planet Earth will treat us differently to any of the other mass extinction events that have happened? In the geological timeframe, we are nothing. Just another blip. Earth will go on and we will be swept aside and some other species will become dominant.
This probably happens all over the universe. It must be incredibly difficult for any civilisation to reach the phase of enlightenment that allows it to succeed in achieving intergalactic travel without first wiping itself out in some way. There is a name for this theory. I will need to Google it.
EDIT: The nearest I can find to what I was describing is #thegreatfilter
Peace be with you...
