Allow yourself space and time to fully comprehend and accept your feelings of fear, grief, despair, sadness, and rage rather than ignoring the truth of climate change.

I have voted for your article because it is well-written and evocative. I don't agree with your position of pairing climate change and pollution. There is a big difference between emitting CO2 into our environment and cancer-causing compounds.

If you accept the opinion that CO2 and temperature are going to rise there is an additional consideration. Humans are not magically creating carbon. They are returning to the biosphere the carbon that had existed previously. Coal is the remnants of trees that first evolved lignin. The organisms at the time had not adapted to decompose the trees. Limestone (concrete production) is the remnants of organisms whose "bones" sequestered carbon into calcium carbonate.

This picture is incorrect because we carried to its logical conclusion, the temperatures and CO2 levels would return us to the time that trees grew from pole to pole. At that time, the Redwoods of today (100 meters, 300 feet +) would be dwarves.

This video features Prof. William Happer of Princeton University might calm you a little.

However, like with anything, finding a balance between ignoring and overthinking the climate crisis is critical.

We are entering a real climate crisis and CO2 only plays an almost insignificant part.