We can continue to argue about mpg and recycling as a hobby vs. active climactic influencer or we can start discussing how the ice caps are going to melt and flooding will kill millions unless the world governments get their acts together and start planning mass evacuations and (for the US at least) how to cope with massive immigration influxes (whether we like it or not, we trashed our military capabilities abroad and can’t even secure the border against narco-terrorists to the south, much less the peaceful immigrants in orders of magnitude larger numbers).

There are two schools of thought about climate change (and CC isn’t a weasel word, it implies that the climate is going to change dramatically and unpredictably, where Global Warming is inaccurate at best, easily used as a rhetorical device by change-deniers and downright misleading at worst): one of these schools of thought believes that we all have to hold hands and recycle while singing kumbaya. The other school of thought says that we ought to regulate the shit out of our polluters, reforest our manmade savannahs (I’m looking at you, Flyover States) and develop multi-layered ecologies of food production in place of monocultures

The approach to mitigating the damage from catastrophic climate change that has the most promise for the long-term survival of not merely the *Homo* series of humanoids but the rest of the ecosphere as well actively threatens the business models of many very wealthy institutions who would lose epic amounts of money if we started taking the risks seriously.