“But we have a hundred years before the environment collapses!?”

Theoretically yes, but there’s that sticky point of what happens to us when the environment is collapsing dying.

Not to mention empathy for the next generation.

Honestly, while it’s very much an unpopular opinion, at this point I think it’s unconscionable to add to that next generation and I definitely secretly judge my peers who do so as making an incredibly selfish decision likely dooming that child to a quite depressing future by the time they reach adulthood themselves.

It’s pretty arrogant to assume that your pessimistic outlook on the future is the only valid or reasonable one. Human quality of life, on average, has pretty consistently improved since the industrial revolution.

I’m hopeful that as a greater proportion of people aren’t scrambling to survive day to day more of us can turn to the issues of environmental protection and remediation.

Me choosing to hope for a Star Trek future is no less valid than your belief in the inevitability of the Mad Max future.

Science supports the pessimistic Mad Max future, not the Star Trek one. So it’s not arrogant at all. It’s foolish to think otherwise.

Nonsense! The IPCC reports include perfectly reasonable science based action plans to address climate change and prevent the Mad Max future.

It’s politics that supports the current plan of emitting as much as possible as fast as possible. It’s people like you who have given up and embraced doomer pessimism that make it so hard to build the political captial needed for change.

You understand the problem. You should know that it’s solvable. Don’t give up before the fight is over!