Climate change debate analogy

So your car is filthy and a mechanic told you that if you don't clean it soon, the dirt on the windscreen is going to obscure your view so much that you'll write it off and potentially kill some people.

So you go out to wash your car and your crazy right wing conspiracy theorist neighbour is angrily screaming at you over the fence, "There's nothing wrong with the car! The mechanic lied to you! Even though I'm not a mechanic so I'm woefully unqualified to even suggest it, but anyway, I'm telling you because someone really smart I know down the pub who has 2 GCSE's told me!"

You think to yourself (if you've got any common sense) "Well I doubt it. Although you never know. Maybe the mechanic exaggerated a bit. Maybe the dirt on my car isn't my fault... but still... it'd be nice to have a cleaner car anyway." You don't just leave it like that, hoping eventually it cleans itself.

Look, whether climate change is really happening or the fault of human pollution or not (personally, like most people with more that a scattering of braincells, I'm with the 'crazy libtard scientists' on this one. Can't ignore those pesky PhD's), we're treating this place the way Christopher Columbus treated Central America in the early 1500's (that's an extremely clever joke. Google it) and it's time to have, at the VERY least, a bit of a tidy up.

FAQ:

- "Climate change is a hoax/conspiracy/con" - Read a book, please.

- "Greta Thunberg is an idiot!" - She's 16 and she's smarter than you. Sit down."

- "We survived the last ice age!" - Good point. And those of us who aren't hopelessly reliant on technology and home comfort so that we don't die will survive another one, but it won't be very nice.

- "But da planet's jus movin closa to th sun tho" - I can arrange for you to be moved closer to the sun.

- "But Donald Trump said..." - *smacks you about the face with the nearest blunt object, hoping it's heavy enough to knock some sense into you.