@WDEFAustenOnek

It starts with "as I was flying back from NYC"...
ah well.
It's very human to find excuses for not changing according to requirements. This human behaviour is also dominant among climate activists like Anna Jane Joyner.

But I agree very much with her list what she wants: cultural, societal conversation on how to deal with the impacts, a philosophical context, a bit of fun, emotional frameworks for the shock and grief, stories about actual kindness at ground zero, and so on. And don't try to sell hopium!

98% of the US American climate scientists and cli-sci communicators I know of either sell hopium and NIMBY.
Or they think solely in long-term averages and thus, have zero grasp on how devastatingly the societal fabric is impacted by extreme events. Both, their obsessive averaging and their lacking social intuition creates excuses for not speaking about what has become necessary as measures to halt #climatechange, ie they create excuses for yet more NIMBY.

And to think that these NIMBY-Averaging minds, together with mainstream economists (think Nordhaus, think Dietz or Wagner) have dominated the climate communications...? No wonder then that Exxon had an easy game pushing their murderous lies into politics. Exxon's strategy was and is directly supported by mainstream economists AND indirectly even by the average climate physicists.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-climate-change