Also bonus points if everyone else is behaving the same way, and extra bonus points if thinking and acting on climate change is hard and depressing.

Basically the nature of the problem is precisely the sort of thing humanity is collectively very bad at (think of the pandemic, which IMO didn't need to happen and we're lucky biomedical science was there to save us with vaccines). We're especially bad at it in this neoliberal culture too.

Basically we're embarrassing ourselves in front of future generations like all of the atrocious dumb shit that's happened in the past.