The antagonizism of gratuitous advice

Few things antagonize people more than gratuitous advice.

Denialists and climate change
 advocates face a near
impentrable divde.

Adaptation to climate change is, in the eyes of many, not only advice they consider gratuitous, but advice that is irrelevant and simply wrong.

Seeing the whole argument false and believing it driven by a utopian-like agenda that disregards and ignores man’s achievements, skills and abilities, the denialists conceive it as an attack on all that is good about society - a way of living they approve - and so grossly irrelevant, disruptive and disingenuous.

There is subsequently, a near impenetrable divide between climate change advocates and the denialists.

Sadly, nature is oblivious to the human debate, for as we face off over whether or not the discussion is based on fact or fantasy, nature is simply busy in the background doing what it does as it adjusts to what exists.

We procrastinate, protecting whatever role it is we consider critical and in doing that fail, absolutely, to make any decision; decisions that employed effectively, assuming they promote decided climate change adaption processes, could produce significant abatement of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions.

Humanity faces a massive dilemma, something intensely unfamiliar to the human experience and as we procrastinate and in many powerful circles adhere unflinchingly to a “business as usual” paradigm, nature totally unaffected by human dithering works at securing equilibrium, unconcerned about whether or not the outcome includes, or allow for, the human species.

The advice that we should respond to evolving changes to our climate with care and contraction may or may not be, depending upon what prism through which you see life, gratuitous, but however you see them they are about equity and a broader sense of care for our fellows.