1. Tell the truth
  2. Act on the truth

Precautionary principle: People want to wait for certainty before acting on the problem (of course once you’re absolutely certain, the thing has already happened)

A Scientist's opinion   A paper     A review of papers      The IPCC
------------------------- More Conservative ----------------------->

Whenever we check present observations against past predictions, the pessimists seem to be the closest.

  • What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of existential Climate Risk (2018)
  • Hot House Earth (2018)
  • Deep Adaptation (2018)

Climate change is worse than cause and effect: It has all of these feedback loops that make it worse exponentially.

Shifting the Overton window is useful (Hence Extinction rather than Climate Change).

Questions

  • Climate delayers
  • Why are people addicted to cars
  • Green new deal any good?