"There is no Planet B!"
"There is no Planet B!" -- President Macron
But for many Americans, Christian fundamentalists, there is, sort of. Our Planet A is micromanaged by God and the end will come "soon" as God wills and then Planet A will fade away unneeded like a cast off cocoon. (Compare to the conclusion of the novel "Childhood's End.")
Our problem is the voting power of those who think that way and are willing to bet the lives of their descendants on it.
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Back about 2003 we came to know "the Chaney Doctrine," a/k/a The One Percent Doctrine, which goes something like this: If the probability of harm is small but the extent of the harm is sufficiently great, then as a practical matter we should act as though the probability were a certainty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Percent_Doctrine
While conservatives were attracted to the Cheney Doctrine's logic when it came to military strikes and invasions of foreign countries, it was never extended to counter global warming doubters, though it definitely could be applied by them. (Which perhaps shows that the doctrine is more a rationalization for courses of action already chosen than a doctrine or rule-of-thumb.)
The "One Percent Doctrine" is related to Pascal's Wager, which goes like this: "I have doubts about the existence of God, salvation, etc. But if I act on my doubts and am wrong, then I have much to lose, while by believing in God, salvation, etc., I have everything to gain and nothing to lose." That argument applies to global warming: if you doubt it, then you have everything to gain and little to lose by supporting carbon-reduction plans. But when has logic changed minds?
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