Climate change is happening and will shape the future world. It is unlikely that we will succeed in slowing the pace of change, mainly because we are too slow and unable to make effective responses in under 20 to 40 years. More than this, the Earth itself will soon be in the driving seat and aiming at a 5 °C hotter world.
I think that our best course of action is to spend at least as much effort adapting to global heating as in attempts to slow or stop it happening.
There are no heroes or villains: we accidentally and unintentionally triggered global heating, always a possibility when an intelligent communicating animal evolves.
The Earth system is far more powerful than we are and has its own goals, but we are of enormous value to it as well as to ourselves, therefore our shared imperative is survival.
