>Still blows my mind I grew up learning about this, and here we are so many years later still not really doing much.

• 1824: Joseph Fourier first hypothesizes a greenhouse effect.
• 1859: John Tyndall first calculates the current greenhouse effect at that time.
• 1896: Svante Arrhenius first develops a model predicting changes based on composition of the atmosphere.
• 1901: The term 'greenhouse effect' is coined.
• 1902: Articles are printed recognizing the idea of global warming as a possible side effect of human industrial activity.
• 1912: Articles are printed recognizing the greenhouse effect as fact and that consider human industrial activity may warm the planet after several hundred years.
• 1938: Guy Callendar confirms CO2 as a greenhouse gas and his research suggested that Earth's average temperature had risen over the prior 50 years. Modern computer modeling has proven his calculations to be remarkably accurate.

We have known about this problem for over a hundred years. Our grandparents & great-grandparents knew about it. I can forgive initial ignorance of the problem as it was seen as somewhat beneficial. But global, annual industrial emissions then were about the same as what the US puts out daily now.

We have royally fucked up every step of the way. The way we have built the modern world since the industrial revolution is inherently destructive and cannot be sustained much longer. Now all of these industries are so interlinked, so connected, that the problem is uniquely positioned so its solutions will piss off everyone.

But we have made progress. We've overcome, what's probably, the biggest apprehension people have about fixing climate change: economics. We've proven that emissions aren't directly linked to growth. Countries have been able to reduce emissions in specific sectors without destroying their economies. That's some knowledge we desperately need to spread in order to win over the remaining dissenters. I mean, why complain if it isn't going to cost the economy or jobs?