Climate change is no longer a future problem. It is here, and the effects are all around. Worse, today's extreme weather events are just a preview of the pain that awaits humanity in the coming decades, almost regardless of how fast we manage to decarbonise the economy this year or next.  Such sobering observations tend to provoke arguments about the importance of 'climate optimism.' Pessimism, after all, demotivates. Martin Luther King Jr had a dream, not a nightmare, for the future his children would inhabit.

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