A lovely piece, over all. But the climate crisis is not "just another" of the perennial challenges facing humanity (i.e. war, tyranny, poverty, pestilence, et al.) It is THE fundamental existential crisis, since our living Earth, in its present (now past) configuration of climate fluctuations, ice caps, global currents, and biota, is our biological support system.

Rather like the machine-language operating system of a computer, it is the sine qua non of all the other narratives of our individual and collective lives. And due to rising CO2 levels from fossil fuel dependency (that we've known about for 40 years), this vast complex adaptive system--Gaia--on which we all depend for our breath, our water, our food, and our metabolic thermal range, has gone into chaotic convulsions, in a runaway feedback loop like a heart attack or terminal cancer--and if/when it collapses, our stories are finished. Is spontaneous remission of this global cancer still possible? I doubt it, but I still hope for miracles.