But you have just admitted that you cared about climate security from a very early age, and you were trying to do your best to get other people to care too. So I'd push back against the notion that you "deserve" to live on an environmentally-ravaged planet, Maria. The same goes for those of us who've likewise wanted similar solutions.

At a certain point, generically placing the blame on "the people" becomes just a lazy cop-out that reeks of the same reductionism that has hastened our society's deterioration.