Climate change and consciousness shift

Climate change: It feels like the approaching End Times.

But it's the secular version thereof, which means that humanity is responsible for both its cause and -- if possible -- its transcendence. All we need to do is change everything about the way the high-tech, global society functions in the next dozen years, in the process countermanding a political structure completely committed to (and profiting from) the status quo that's creating the problem in the first place.

And modestly complicating the scenario is the fact that there's no universal agreement on the changes that are necessary to maintain Planet Earth in a livable