Climate Change Ruminations

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Climate change is something that often occupies my thoughts as I try to think of what the future holds for us all and what can be done.  The powerful are the most insulated from these problems, so I do not think they can be trusted to do anything significant about them.  At the same time, I don't really think the attitude of 'if I'm not responsible for the problem I don't have to do anything about it' is a good one here.  The people who are most responsible for these problems are not, I should think, the ones who can be relied upon to fix them!  And yet, they are, disproportionately, the ones still making the decisions.  If others of us do not apply pressure, those in power will dispassionately watch us die from the problems they themselves are disproportionately shielded from.  By the time things are bad enough for the people in charge to be truly worried, it will be too late for the rest of us.