This is one if the best writings on climate crisis I’ve read recently. To add my two cents<p>"I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win."<p>-- Richard Stallman<p>Fuck hope and optimism. I am gonna go out and fight no matter what. Doing nothing makes me sick.
> They believe that without that public optimism, the fragile effort to battle climate change will collapse completely.<p>I can imagine this being true.<p>If a meteor is going to destroy Earth you probably aren't spending your last few days doing the dishes and sweeping the floors. You're only doing that if there's a > 50% chance that we'll be able to divert it.<p>And better than "being optimistic" is rapidly developing the technology and passing the law to make it realistic.