It DOES Seem Odd, Doesn’t It?

While yes, it seems strange that we’re sitting around watching the planet bake, keep in mind the following factors that makes this an extremely complicated and difficult problem to solve:

Human society is organized around 200+ sovereign countries, each acting, for the most part, independently of the others.

We conduct period meetings in which world leaders come together to discuss the challenge, and occasionally they make promises about future reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, but there is no supervising body with the strength to enforce compliance.

Most of the emissions come from the developing world that lacks the financial capacity to invest in clean energy solutions.

The will of the people means essentially nothing in terms of overall decision-making, even in a so-called democracy like the United States.

Mitigating climate change will require sacrifice on an individual level, and, as we’re observing, very few people are willing to make cuts into their personal lifestyle for the common good.

Achieving some level of consensus that action must be taken means fighting through the propaganda that continues to belch forward from the oil companies.