In 2023, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that the world already had too much coal, oil, and “natural gas” to halt global heating at 2° Celsius. The report also said that over 2° Celsius, the risk of global “food insecurity” becomes “very high,” and we face a high risk of “limited adaptation” to “heat-related morbidity and mortality.” (Food shortages and fatal heat waves are, of course, only two of the impacts of climate change, all of which interact with and compound each other.) Yet in the past three years the world’s banks, governments, and private fossil-energy companies have poured an estimated $2 trillion into expanding coal, oil, and “natural gas” supply. Global newspaper coverage of climate change, never great to begin with, has fallen by half. The voices of the statusquo will sneer that this is happening because “people don’t care about climate change,” but polling consistently shows that, even if climate is no longer the second-most salient issue in American politics (as it was in 2020), 66 percent of Americans are worried about the climate future. Swing voters reject Republican climate denial, moreover, and a supermajority supports the U.S. economy transitioning from fossil fuels to 100 percent clean energy by 2050.

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