For thirty years we were told the debate was over. The science was settled. Humanity had roughly a decade—always a decade—to slash emissions or face biblical floods, mass starvation, and the end of civilization as we know it. Children were taught to have panic attacks. Teenagers were told not to have children. Politicians demanded trillions in new taxes, global governance mechanisms, and the deliberate de-industrialization of the West.
Then, almost overnight, the tone changed. . .