“Okay, ManBearPig the elephant is real. What are we gonna do about it now, huh? What are we gonna do that’s gonna make any difference now, Susan?”

Seriously, even in 1970 drastic action might not have been enough to stop a lot of the damage, as nature has been filtering and absorbing what we’ve done long before signs started showing. However, given that the last thing we should have done was ramp up things to dwarf what we had done in the previous century, but that’s what we did. And we still aren’t putting on brakes. We get what we deserve.

And yes, doing something now is still better than nothing, but so much less than it could have been.