We Can't "Get To It Later"

I'm in a teary-eyed bad mood today. I hear there's a story on NPR today called It's 2050 and This Is How We Stopped Climate Change... but I haven't listened to it yet (too much to do).

So instead I'm reading these two tweets from Dave Roberts at Vox and feeling sad and angry:

I really think the popular understanding of climate change fails to fully appreciate its irreversibility. Every increment of heat, and every knock-on effect of that heat, is something our species will be dealing with, for all intents and purposes, forever. Can't "get to it later."

This radically alters the political economy of the situation. It's different from almost any other policy problem. I'm not even sure we have a great understanding of the political economy it does create, but we know it's different than, eg, healthcare.

Different from everything, including nuclear war, I guess, but more similar to that than anything else in terms of scale. But that's not acknowledged in the halls of power, and it seems as though the billionaire class if figuring out how to survive it themselves rather than solve it for the rest of us.

Time to go do something. Don't forget the youth climate strike on Friday!