> in the political doghouse and gets you crucified on social media

This is arguably the correct thing, even if you believe the situation is urgent, if you also believe that other things are more urgent. Suppose you think that fixing declining education or economies is absolutely prerequisite, and that until people are smarter or more comfortable or both, even discussing the climate too often weakens your chances of building effective coalitions.

Personally, I go back and forth when I weigh this sort of thing, I'm really not sure. We probably need to at least consider that this is a consistent/coherent perspective. Of course, it's not a invitation to make things worse as fast as possible with drill-baby-drill.. but an acknowledgement that there are many other ways to make things worse, such as pissing people off. Aggravating corporations is fine, but for people who are not ready to hear about this, we need real consideration and a real offer. However inconsistently, we have tried forcing an agenda they need to comply with already, so now let's try something else