As the climate scientist and brilliant writer Kate Marvel puts it, “Climate change isn’t a cliff we fall off but a slope we slide down.” The climate has already changed. If you’re reading this, for all intents and purposes, you are doing so on a planet that is fundamentally different from the one you were born on. And what’s been done, sadly, cannot be undone, at least not in the near future. But there’s real good to be done by not letting it get worse. Limiting the damage is good, noble—valorous even. Any suffering we can alleviate is a blessing.
