In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

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    …Changes which will never happen and will themselves cause untold suffering and millions of deaths, so no one will ever support them.

    What we need is a method that would not negatively impact human standard of living. Human expansion into space would do it; we’ll require the energy and resources up there to geoengineer in a non-stupid way and get the energy and resources to get off Exxon-Mobil’s oily cock and undo ocean acidification anyway.

    So let’s do that instead. We can prevent the civil war that would erupt from climate austerity too.

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      What we need is a method that would not negatively impact human standard of living.

      we need to turn this ship around without altering course, lol.

      sure thing buddy, that would be great. not gonna hold my breath on that.