It's not going to be fixed.

It's not because climate change is a "hoax," either. It's because the changes required to fix it are incredibly inconvenient for pretty much the entire First World, and definitely too inconvenient for Americans, whose entire country was built on rejection of the prevailing social contract. It's because "just dump your shit and move on" is ingrained at the deepest levels of our brain; even chimps make garbage piles.

It's because the bulk of the effects are going to fall on the unborn generations, and what have they ever done for me, anyway? Consequences that fall on someone else aren't consequences.

So what do we do? The lyrics of an Eighties song come to mind: "Let's all get drunk and get laid! "