Same here with my family being pro vacs/mask and covid free (and other viruses, knock on wood). My sister was a RN in the middle of the Covid and Mitigation Wars with patients and coworkers dropping like flies around her and all the magots yelling at her for trying to save them. Retired now with over 50 yrs in the business starting as a volunteer candy stripe girl as a teen to assisting surgeons with pretty much everything from births to gang shootings, mass accidents, and major transplants. She never had to deal with anything like the political Covid War thrust upon her, her crew, and our health industry in general. Nothing even close.
Fighting global warming can make a difference, a difference that may be difficult to measure, at this point all we can do is minimize and mitigate the damage we are doing and have done, something we should have been doing 50-100 yrs ago or even longer. Sure everything pollutes and our natural resources are not infinite, but there are methods and usage that leave an overall smaller footprint and lessen the global warming, birth defects and viruses, polluting of our air, water, land, the essence of life itself.
It goes way beyond just switching to solar, wind, or electric vehicles. A big part of our problem is the waste that humans are doing (which does seem infinite). Everything is so disposable for profit. Nothing lasts like it should, from $3000 appliance that is built to only last a year or just past the warranty to tires that are wearing out so fast to the tune of polluting just as much or more than the ICE vehicle burning fossil fuel is doing. All for guarantied profit of continued purchases and guarantied expense to our climate and health. Gas and oil spewing out into our air, land, and water from leaking wells and pipelines and the violations of the few requirements we have for the industry, and all the byproducts of fossil fuels disposed of. I could go on and on, the education of all these things is being denied the public by 100's of millions of dollars from the fossil fuel and other industry paying our politicians (overwhelmingly the GOP) to hide that education and to work for them and protect them and their profits.
No matter what we do now, there is going to be higher costs coming our way. Drastic change is required though (changes and sacrifices that won't "feel so good"), but if we continue the path that we are doing, those costs will be exponentially greater.
