2023-08-16 08:30:28
Good laugh at 54 degrees: Tourists in Death Valley, California, did not let their mood spoil in mid-July. Image: AFP
Climate change is a problem, but not the apocalypse. The misguided fear of doom causes extremism and exaggerated climate protection policies. A guest post.
Extinction Rebellion rebels against the possible extinction of humanity due to climate change. Some are more optimistic. David Attenborough fears that climate change will only spell the end of human civilization and make us all hunter-gatherers. Others are more pessimistic. Bernie Sanders seems to think that climate change will do to the planet what happened to the fictional planet of Alderaan – it was destroyed. If any of this were true or even remotely likely, I would join the rebellion. But luckily that’s not the case, so I won’t do it.
To be clear, climate change is real, it is man-made and it is a problem that needs to be solved. However, climate change does not pose an existential threat, at least not for humanity.