First let us establish that it is insane to act against one’s personal self-interest.

Second as an advanced life form we can include in our self-interest the legacy that we leave.

Third, the religious believe in doing good even if it is against self-interest.

So all is not lost.

Tell my why I would choose to suffer today for a better tomorrow for someone else.

Why would I pay restitution?

Why would I reduce my Carbon foot print?

Why not burn fossil fuels and eat red meat?

Why should I help save the planet, it is clearly doomed and nothing is going to change that?

Maybe in a million years Earth will recover from our depredations and we will see and increase in species diversity instead of extinction. We will all be long dead.

I am sort of joking. I have reduced my meat consumption. I recycle. I reduce. I reuse. I live well below my means. I will do more when others do more and I will be dead before any of this really matters.

Greta can point the finger but too few care. We are definitely not paying restitution. You will be lucky if we act before it is way too late.

I have written many times we need to impose carbon rationing. Strict controls to produce mandatory carbon emissions reductions immediately.

It ain’t happening. The rich have too much to lose and nothing to gain. Extinction, planet wide environment degradation, famine, death and destruction. They don’t care, it will not happen to them.

The situation is barely short of hopeless.

TEK