It\'s thirty years from now.
The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they\'re often the elders that we love?.
And they\'re armed to the teeth.
And they\'re not going anywhere.
And they\'re your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt.
To their alternative news sources that reassure them that their resentment is right and pure and that climate change is just a giant scam.
But there are still those Americans, mostly elderly, who cling to their red baseball caps, their grievances, their huge vehicles, their anger.
Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks.
It employs everyone who wants to work.
The effort is global.
Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year.
Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere.
Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas.
And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it.
It\'s just an overwhelming fact of life.
But what about all the angry old people who can\'t let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn\'t controversial.
We\'re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.
It\'s thirty years from now
