>>13694992>Be honest, is it too late to stop climate change?Yes.
It's about a 100 years too late.
>What went wrong?We genuinely can't make any of the necessary changes to the economy, technology, and society, that would be capable of effectively stalling or combating climate change at this stage.
We need direct access energy and our best source of that is fossil fuels. Renewable energy in the form of solar and wind are a joke (UK's current energy crisis being acerbated by the fact that the wind "didn't blow enough that year") and things like geothermal and hydroelectric are limited to geography. People are also still irrationally afraid of Nuclear Energy. Everything that would be required of us to 'fix' global warming would also, effectively, destroy the economy, society, and make literally everyone upset.
What we can do at this point, and what would make a huge difference; is to shift the environmental narrative away from carbon emissions and back to actual tangible and objective goals such as:
Reforestation, habitat protection and conservation. It isn't good enough to simply plant trees- you actually have to leave them alone and let them grow.
Actually taking overfishing seriously. We're unironically running out of fish.
Cleaning up the fucking plastic in the ocean. Please for the love of christ can we leave the fucking ocean alone.
Funding & promoting 'rewilding' projects that rebuild biomes by reintroducing key species that have been extirpated or extinct. Most people have heard of the cascade success of wolves in yellowstone park, but the reintroduction of beavers into California has been quite effective at restoring salmonids and aspen/cottonwood forests.
