Environmental Ethics
The Climate Sacrifice
Scientific consensus states that preventing catastrophic climate change requires immediate, drastic action. This would involve significant lifestyle changes, job losses in traditional industries, and a planned economic downturn in developed nations. The alternative is to maintain current economic priorities and focus on adaptation, which models predict will lead to mass displacement, food system collapse, and severe global instability within 30 years. Your choice weighs certain, immediate hardship against potential, delayed catastrophe.