Same here. I read a couple of literature reviews on climate change on a particular hot summer vacation in 2016. It completely voided me of all hope that humans would somehow manage to ‘solve’ the wave of misery that is rushing towards us.
>> voided me of all hope that humans would somehow manage to ‘solve’ the wave of misery that is rushing towards us.
The general tendency of human(each generation) is to bid it safe and hope that their generation is not affected by whatever catacalysm is coming up. Everyone I know likes to believe that, they will be long dead before such things happen and science will figure something out.
So in general, people are more likely to continue abusive(towards nature) behavior because they hope that they won't be affected. Unfortunately, this doesn't help anyone and it is hard to change people's mind, until bad things start happening to them.
So, in summary, human is probably not intending to solve the wave of misery, but hoping to escape it, hence the general acceleration of the changes will be devastating and pretty fast.
Southern Europe burns while Northern Europe is mowing grass and blowing leaves by burning gasoline in portable engines. It feels like the opening of a disaster movie.
I guess sooner rather than later we'll see militaries being deployed to secure (i.e steal from other nations) food and water, who cares about diplomacy and civilization if there's starvation. I wonder who's got the better military, Putin might've screwed Russia by getting his troops all shot up in Ukraine, if Siberia becomes fertile land and China needs food, who's going to stop them from saying "we're borrowing this bit of your country, that's cool with you, right?".
A friend posted a meme about why most people seem mostly calm instead of panicking, I commented, I guess individuals just need it to be normal for them and they'll feel fine, if they start paying attention they won't be able to sleep at night, so we trivialize the problem to solve the cognitive dissonance.