Climate Optimism vs. Climate Pessimism

[Leonardo17]

Here Neil DeGrasse Tyson is trying to explain what happens when you keep adding CO2  and CH4 to the atmosphere and the real effects of Climate change.





 
Here is a series I found on youtube. It’s called kurzgesagt (in a nutshell). They cover many scientific issues. But I find their videos on climate change very interesting:






And One of the former US presidential candidate and Vice President Mr Al Gore has a very interesting speech on the issue on this link:

TED

So while the issue is very serious hopelessness is not an option. More than that, it’s not realistic. I think that we are slowly reaching the last line of defense of the fossil-fuel industry. In other words, the energy transition is happening at an accelerating pace. And trying to slow this transition means trillions of dollars for them. So they are putting all their weight on it in a time when China is now announcing a 7 to 10% reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4y159190go
 
Their last line of defense is to say “We are already doomed. The planet and humanity is already dead. So let’s keep burning the juice while we are alive”. But I don't agree with that,

Many are stating that there is still a lot space for some reasonable hope on the whole issue. I personally believe in a mixed response to the crisis as a whole. I believe that there will be different parts of the problem that will be solved by different types of solutions and our willingness to implement these solution will mean some tenth of degrees in the change of global temperatures as a whole. (Which will probably be between 2 and 3 degrees by the end of the century).
 
As a spiritual note: I also believe that our way of doing things and our general philosophy on who we are and who we want to be as a specie and as individuals will probably play a huge role as well.