I believe in climate change too but I'm also a realist. I also agree with everything you say about the dystopian future that everybody kept promising was going to happen and when it doesn't they either push the date back or adjust the reasoning.

My own two cents about the subject are this when it comes to the biggest criers: they are shouting the sky is falling and blaming everyone else to ignore the fact that they themselves wouldn't do a single thing to change if they could. I once posed this theory in a column and I pose it again to the people on this blog.

Let's say that you could do something that if wee all limited our combined internet and social media access to five minutes a day you would reduce your carbon footprint a full ten percent. And if enough people did it we could keep Earth alive for another half a century. For me personally that wouldn't be much of a sacrifice. I guarantee you everyone 21 or younger just gripped their cellphones a little tighter just thinking that this might be a real solution. They would rather die in a fiery hellscape or coastal flooding rather than sacrifce the ability to tweet nonstop about how we're killing the planet for them.

I think the loudest voices on this subject are merely angry because of the possibility the bill might come do on their watch. They blame previous generations because they're angry they won't have the power to do the exact same thing. And as we all know, solutions has never been part of the left's thinking on a good day, only placing blame.

Every generation thinks that it's growing up in a time of unprecedented change. I'm sure this group thinks the same thing. But to quote a sage TV writer as to what he thought the next millennium would bring when we all thought the world would end 2000: "one thousand more years of the same old crap." Call me a cock-eyed optimist, but I'm inclined to think that's what will happen.