Mike

We are facing millions of deaths over the next fifty to eighty years and to hold that to a minimum planet wide will require brutal honesty at all times.

This is not clear enough. Currently over fifty million people die each year so with no change in the death rate over 2.5 billion people will die in the next 50 years.

If politics and climate change add millions, 10’s or 100’s of millions to that total it might not raise an alarm if the deaths are not clustered and don’t have unusual or violent causes. Yes, the science would be able to sort it and point to climate change as the indirect cause but like the catastrophic weather events we have seen in recent years, it will not raise an alarm in the general population. Already pollution kills 8.9 million people a year and as many as 200 million people suffer pollution-related health problems. Where is the outrage, you get more outrage for trying to increase gasoline taxes in France, Iran or Bolivia.

Your vision is an very unlikely utopia, it is not going to happen or at least not like you hope. Not a shame on you. Nobody can know how this will play out or what changes we can make.

No harm is asking for more truth. That is hard to enforce. Might I suggest that we work harder to get people to sort the truth from the lies. Get people to give up their preconceptions and biases. People spend more time working to confirm their biases than they do to find the truth.

Oh, so many times I have brought the evidence only to be told that my sources are liars before they even look at the data because they don’t like the conclusions.

TEK