Climate scientists, in an effort to stave off despair, aren’t telling the truth about our warming planet. In reality, we're incredibly close to the point of no return: when rising seas drown island nations and almost all coral reefs die. I’m here to tell climate scientists — and my fellow climate journalists — to knock it off, writes Barbara Moran.
Right?
Poor people and folk from less developed countries are disproportionately going to be made to suffer horrendously before they die.
This is not about stopping it. It is about damage reduction.
It’s like saying we shouldn’t really care for people who come into the accident room because they are going to die, eventually, anyway.
In my experience doomers are just looking for a convenient excuse not to do anything, but they suddenly become really motivated when it’s their home that is flooding, or on fire, or flooded and on fire.