Being willfully obtuse about settled science is dangerous, this is also a straw man as this isn’t about stopping the climate from changing as you put it. Anyone who has spent 5 minutes reading what the actual climate scientists are saying is that due to our emissions, we have rapidly increased the rate of climate change in a very short time.
Climatic change that took thousands of years in the past, we have done in a relatively short time. And unlike tens of thousands of years ago, 8 billion people cannot survive long when we’ve reached a tipping point causing runaway warming.
Think it’s no big deal? You can handle a few more degrees of heat? Yea well you, in your air conditioned office may be able to to for awhile, crops don’t care about people’s opinions, or politics. Droughts and floods don’t either, tropical diseases migrating northward don’t either, and the next pandemic may come from a virus that’s unleashed in the melting permafrost somewhere in the arctic. As we saw what happened with Covid, it doesn’t take much to disrupt global supply chains. The first and worst thing most people will likely notice is food shortages, which are already happening.
Earth is in the Goldilocks zone, we have a thin atmosphere, a small window of survivability, the goal was to keep us in that window. The outcome of not doing so is mass death, human extinction, and instead of doing everything possible to not have that happen, we are charging straight ahead into oblivion, by narcissistic blowhards in government and corporations. And this isn’t limited to one particular political party, or country, oil, chemical, and agribusiness lobbies rule the world. And unfortunately people around the world keep voting for politicians who are owned by these industries, due to a mountain of propaganda.
The oil companies knew about the effects of burning fossil fuels decades ago, and covered it up, the US military considers climate change to be the #1 threat to national security. So spare me if I don’t take the word of anonymous people on the internet, who spread 20-30-40 year old falsehoods that were concocted by pr firms paid by oil companies.