Except for a small amount of deniers and the greedy who profit from the status quo the science of climate change has been settled; that beings us to solutions and here is where we have stalled.
It's not that we have no solutions it's that we don't want to take the trouble to implement them. The solutions tend to be very simple. Climate change is a crisis of over consumption so mitigation revolves around the need to reduce consumption.
I don't understand the anxiety about holding on to massive consumption as a security blanket when it is destroying us. I think it is more a fear of any change that is holding us back because the changes to our economic system that need to be implemented to mitigate climate change are changes that the community of progressives could only dream of implementing through ordinary activism.
The response to climate change necessitates a rejection of the corporate culture and it's dictate to our everyday lives. We are clogs pushed into a hole. Every area of our lives is dictated by capitalist corporate culture from our mobility to the food we eat. The corporatists know that it's their job to make us want their product even if it kills us. And it does.
A radical rejection of their values is our dream and we have the opportunity to make that happen through the mitigation of climate change.
We are so used to having no control that real freedom is frightening. But through that freedom we can develop radically different ways to treat one another and to relate to the natural world. It is what we have yearned for: a way of living that respects the individual and the world we inhabit.
Individuals acting collectively creates the power to make the necessary changes especially individuals who place themselves as obstacles to the continuation of the status quo.
I understand I'm talking about societal and economic change but the crisis of climate change requires no less.
Don't underestimate your contribution to the change as it is desperately needed. Simple changes in your consumption taken as a whole challenges the market and those who manipulate it. Owning your power is what is required to conquer the crisis of climate change.