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What's missing is the fact that the public opinion regarding climate change is evolving really fast as well. In my country, not even a few years ago, people who didn't eat meat or didn't take the plane because of ecological reasons were really rare and seen as extremists. Today, it's more and more widespread and socially accepted.

Stepping out of fossil fuels means a great deal of industrial and civilizational change, which takes a lot of time. But things do change.

In these days, what we need is for people to take action (from voting and raising their voices in the media, to working on how to live in a sustainable way as a civilization), and promote a positive message that others will follow. Depression-inducing articles like this one risks to prevent people from believing in a decent future, and thus persuade them to stop caring and acting for a better world.

>>gorpov+(OP)
> In my country, not even a few years ago, people who didn't eat meat or didn't take the plane because of ecological reasons were really rare and seen as extremists. Today, it's more and more widespread and socially accepted

The problem is that these religious rituals are not doing much to mitigate any of the issues.

I tend to ask "how does that solar shade coming along" only to get downvotes from believers.

Sometimes they say that the issue is more complex, such as via ocean acidification. But the problem here is that if you're doing something, that issue becomes less complex, whereas if you're doing nothing (short of those religious rituals) your issue becomes even more complex.