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The reason you act on climate change, or incur short-term costs, is that the long term costs of inaction are likely severe.

Here are the truisms of climate, if you do not accept these then I suggest you not go sailing for fear of falling over the edge of the world:

1. The climate system is warming much faster than is "natural".

2. The reason it is warming so fast is because we are burning fossil fuels and increasing the CO2 composition of the atmosphere.

3. We don't know the short term implications of this but we have strong inclinations as to the long term impacts.

4. These impacts will put severe stresses on basic support systems for civilization such as food and water.

5. The costs of dealing with it now are significantly smaller than trying to deal with it after the fact.

6. This requires us to be comfortable with change in the face of unknown benefits and to pay for actions that we will not enjoy but our grandchildren will.

7. Inaction is a choice to willfully impose a degraded, fragile, poorer future on those next in line.

8. What you can choose to do is to accept short term change and inconveniences in your life. Specifically, if you care about this issue you must vote for politicians who care about action and punish politicians who do nothing.