critically thinking
A lot of people don’t, and it’s generally hard to do when looking at TV instead of a printed article.
Now you work to change the rules of society so that we can stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and limit the amount of additional warming we see.
Emissions haven’t been constant over those few decades; fossil fuel burning has been rising about 3% each year, so that half the cumulative CO2 emissions since the industrial revolution have happened since the early 1980s.. That’s what took us from “predicted change” to “crisis” now instead of at some earlier time.
Here’s a gift link you can edit into your post so people don’t hit the paywall