It's thirty years from now and we're making progress mitigating climate change slowly but
surely. But what about all the angry people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation
from now climate change isn't controversial it's just an overwhelming fact of life. But so
are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the
rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief the
mitigation of floods and superstorms has become a skill for which tens of millions of people
are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when
national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders the momentum is too great these vast
programmes cannot be stopped in their tracks. But there are still those Americans who cling to
their red trucker caps their grievances their anger their nostalgia for the golden age of
assault rifles. Their ?alternative' news sources reassure them their resentment is right and
pure and ?climate change' is a con. They're your grandfather your uncle your great-aunt.
They're not going anywhere. And they're armed to the teeth.
