Why Addressing Climate Change Is So Tough

There are several reasons that climate change is proving to be such a difficult challenge for our civilization to overcome.

One of them is nationalism/tribalism.  There are 200+ sovereign nations on this small blue planet, whose citizens feel very little affinity for those in other countries.  This means limited cooperation among nations that desperately need to come together to develop and share relevant technology.

Another is the influence of Big Oil with its rapacious greed and corruptive influence over our lawmaking processes.  All this is made worse by the fact that they have allies among some of the most ignorant people on Earth. We Americans live with tens of millions of hateful morons, like the truck owner here.