Climate change: we’re cooked. | Alexandra Carlton | The Punch

Even the most optimistic expert admits that the scope of change required from the human race to prevent disaster is so large as to be virtually inconceivable. We can’t and won’t do it. Many, like respected, if controversial, climate scientist James Lovelock think we’re just too stupid.
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One: we’re hopeless as a herd but we’re quite nice once you get us alone. There’s no reason why we can’t ease the earth and its inhabitants into their final days with generous levels of palliative care on a small-scale basis. So plant some trees in your area if it will make it more liveable. Hold coal mines accountable for the pollution they inflict on nearby communities. And why not welcome more climate change refugees from countries where things are burning/flooding/starving faster than we are here? We’re all going down together so what difference does it make?
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Or maybe when the Earth becomes so clammy and choking that we can barely breathe, we’ll invent an ingenious way to cool everything down again – one that’s far too costly and boring to bother with now.

But until then we haven’t got a hope in hot, hot hell.