A LIE UNEXPECTEDLY BECOMING TRUTH

 Unless we start radical change of our outlook on nature and indeed our whole economy, we are now headed straight for that very place where the fossil-fuel billionaires with their Stetsons and their handcrafted cowboy boots warned us for a half-century we'd be going if we 'greened' our way of life: back to a few pitiful clans having to walk two miles for water and having to cut wood for fires to cook and stay warm. Cooling off? Apart from the nearest body of water, fuggedaboudit!
We're headed that way because of our own inaction, true, but those same fossil-fuel billionaires and their boughten political slaves are the ones mostly responsible for that inaction. And a too-large number of us have been adamantly unwilling to tolerate a bare minimum of inconvenience, like the spoiled brats they are!
And together with those already obscenely rich individuals who put nothing above more and higher  profits for themselves (pretty much alone) they are the people who have kept the rest of us on this road to real perdition.
'Radical change' is now what is urgently necessary to keep our discomfort with the necessary changes to a minimum and to keep living standards for most of us from plunging abruptly. And an unlooked-for benefit of such change will probably be the narrowing of inequality and the democratizing of our economies. (Maybe that's another reason why the obscenely rich fight this. They want worldwide neo-feudalism buttressed by propped-up theocracy)
For one thing, the regeneration, aka the 'greening' (re-greening?) of our planet will produce tens of millions of jobs, which, if decently paid, will be really good jobs! They'd be good jobs anyway, but if the people are decently paid, they'll be really good jobs!
And yes, there will have to be training and/or re-training of many people to do these jobs and they'll need to be paid something in order to live while they're being (re)trained. I refuse to believe we can't do this; it's only that too many of us won't because they, or we, are so vain and stupid we think we'll weather the crisis all right and screw all those other sloths (especially ones with darker skins) who are not as virtuously hardworking as us!
Never mind the absolutely wicked and, yes, immoral selfishness and vanity in such an outlook. Never mind even that none of us know where climate catastrophe or the latest strain of Covid will strike.
For argument's sake, let's pretend that, no, in our wealthy and mostly white lands, catastrophe will be sufficiently cushioned. Two things we cannot govern on this planet are the movements of air and water, that is, winds and tides.
Now let's imagine that much of western Africa and the Indian subcontinent become uninhabitable. Let's imagine that there are large stretches of land where the living are not enough to bury or cremate the dead. So those heaps of corpses just rot in piles, or, having jumped into the ocean, drown and some, uneaten by satiated sharks, float as far as our shores. Australia, I include you in this.
What will you do when the wind carries, every single day, the scent of death with it? What will we do when pieces of corpses and bones wash up on our shores? Have any of you thought about that? Stay inside all day, our ventilation systems will still draw air from outside which may compound rather than alleviate that horrible odor! What will you do when the scent of death is unavoidable and omnipresent?
Guess none of y'all's thought of that, am I right?
If we get planetary regeneration under serious steam beginning NOW, this is still something we can avoid--but only just. We need to elect real public servants with the courage to do what's necessary and the intellectual heft to explain to we the people why these measures are necessary. We need to vote out every single boughten political slave of the obscenely rich and those phony 'religious' shills who pretend to 'anoint' such bogus characters! Begin now! Now! NOW!!
Only by breaking the power of the fossil fuel industry and seriously regenerating our planet can we now avoid what the fossil-fuel shills have been warning us about!!