The apocalypse

I think this video explains climate change extremely competently and offloads a lot of the nit-picking to skepticalscience.com. Unfortunately I think her audience is already aware of everything in the video and the people who should watch this aren't going to listen to a somewhat eccentric trans women.

I don't see the United States honestly addressing climate change unless we depoliticize climate change. But to my extremely limited knowledge nothing like that has ever been accomplished.

We can’t seem to solve much smaller problems, so I have no faith that we can solve something on the scale of curbing global carbon emissions. If we can’t persuade people to do something as simple as vaccinate their kids, we’re really fucked if we want them to do something harder, like change their consumption habits or put political pressure on their governments to incentivize clean energy.

Also, I think the bit about politicizing the debate is problematic. Framing the conversation such that conservatives have to 'become liberals' in order to combat climate change is a terrible idea. Persuading people on this issue should be about showing them evidence and giving them options, not trying to change their minds because you want them on your side. For individuals, you want them to accept the evidence and make up their mind about how they want to act. For corporations, however, we need governmental action to make it economically infeasible to operate without helping to bring down emissions. On that front, having political allies is important, so getting individuals to support common-sense legislation should be the near-term goal. Getting people on board with political, economic, and industrial reform, I hope, is easier (and hopefully more productive) than attacking their personal lifestyle choices.