Best case is weather events are so strange and so large that it knocks people awake, they come out of this fugue state they’ve been in. I think regular people are actually surprisingly clued in, but the big thing they’re missing is the urgency. And off of that, we go into full-on, emergency-footing World War II–style mobilization. We create massive worldwide research projects about how to remove carbon at scale, how to time it right.… We come up with emergency water plans, food-delivery plans, ways to protect crops.
The worst, the more pessimistic view, is that these weather events get larger, more bizarre, more destructive, and the majority of us never wake up; that these systems … are so entrenched in that corrupt culture that it’s not a temporary state; it’s more like brain damage, and they’re not able to wake up. In which case, you’ll start to see fracturing little communities scrambling to stay alive. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/adam-mckay-climate-crisis-disruptive-activism-1234986024/
