It is somewhat of a difficult situation of course, because it relies on trust in some ways, but also being aware of fallacious reasoning. For example, I often see people argue that BECAUSE this is political, THEREFORE it is false. I’m sorry, that is just not true. It can be true while it is also being politicized.
(Remember when Zuma said he should not be prosecuted because of the political involvement?).
So in the end, the question remains: What is true? If it is true that the earth is on the brink of an environmental disaster, then your personal freedom be damned: You will switch to an EV or start walking! If it is entirely untrue, well then we should probably start looking for the cabal orchestrating all this (and some people claim to have already found them).
My personal view is that the matter is probably somewhere in the middle. We are indeed skewing our environment, we are making it hotter, we are affecting the weather. I think the earth has the ability to correct, like a finely tuned closed-control loop, it can recover… but if you know anything about closed control loop, the inputs required may be rather huge. So if you wonder about the huge swings, very wet months followed by dry ones, extreme weather, hurricanes, etc… it is telling us something. Besides, common sense tells you you cannot just continue to burn more stuff all of the time.
