Inducing this pessimism is a strategy for predatory delay. Or, as I've said in a different context, cynicism is obedience.https://twitter.com/427climaterisk/status/933068784868438021 …
Folks who don't want to change their lifestyle feel better about that if they think efforts against climate change will fail anyway. US leaders are willfully blind & culpable in the great harm the #US causes, but so are its citizens ( & #California citizens also of course).