Pretty good summary of where we are wrt climate change now, and it's noticeable that activism on it has dwindled since attention moved on to wars & genocides. Not that it was ever really effective either...

The concluding remarks are pretty weak, I have to say:

'The pathological hold the gospel of ‘economic growth’ - aka essential-habitat-obliteration - has on our collective psyche seems stronger than our will to protect our loved ones.'

Er, that's because protecting our loved ones in the most immediate sense depends on securing access to paid work in the capitalist markets, NOT on ecosystem health or the stability of the climate, which, because of the alienated nature of civilised societies is always relegated to a secondary concern. In fact it's worse: economic activity in this culture does best in situations where wild nature is destroyed (aka 'developed') the fastest and fossil fuels burned the fastest. That perverse incentive has been there since agriculture 10K years ago and we're reaching the playing out of consequences that have been baked into the system since then.

'Humanity desperately needs a collective shift away from denialism, minimisation and all our tremulous defences, because unprecedented harms are coming but these can always be lessened. The trigger could be our scientists but in their shrinking absence, perhaps popular influencers like O’Brien, Jeremy Clarkson and their international peers, need to step in from their privileged places on the side-lines. They are perfectly capable of understanding our predicament, and could use their superior communication skills to provoke both appropriate alarm and support for meaningful responses.'

James O'Brien and Jeremy Clarkson would be out of a job and ostracised from their social position in 5 minutes if they did this. It's not about changing minds or educating the public: people develop the rationalisations they need in order to justify the way they live - most often with next to no choice in the matter. The media system selects for propagandist communicators to hoodwink the public, but as Darren Allen has observed there's a sense in which these figures are providing the kind of rationalisations that people actually want to hear, which is why they continue to seek them out and not, say, the voices of radical climate activists. For someone who correctly rails against those insisting on false hope messaging, this is quite a big dead end to exert energy on.

But yeah, good read other than that!

cheers,
I