I'm glad you are all so optimistic. I can’t help but wonder what would have transpired if the internet had existed when we were taking action to close the ozone hole, eradicating smallpox, or beating back polio.
There was opposition to the elimination of CFCs, how it would destroy jobs and all that, but in the end we accepted the results of science. Could that have happened if randos in YouTube were humping conspiracy theories?
Most of you are probably too young to remember waiting in long queues in the school gym to get the polio shot. There were few anti-vaxers. Christian Scientists were excused, along with, IIRC, Jehovah's Witnesses. Few wanted to risk seeing their children paralyzed. No one pretended it wasn’t real. Children in iron lungs, in wheelchairs, hobbling about on crutches were obviously real. Yet you are about as likely to become paralyzed if you are infected with poliovirus (It is still with us) as you are to die if you become infected with SARS-CoV-2.
We are a stiff necked people. The billionaires who created the misinformation monster will continue to thrive and escape accountability. The rest of us get to pay for it. The effects of climate change will have to get a lot worse before we do anything. It won't kill everybody, but it only remains to be seen how many perish.
It may well transpire that I live to find out. My brother and my ex-wife were spared that.
There are some hopeful signs like the beginning of the decline of the human population. Thank God we are animals and as such we cut down on reproduction when things don't look so rosy.