Climate change is putting stress on ecosystems that causes them to change more rapidly than they have in the past. You could go back in history and find similar things, but you'd be hard pressed to go back in history and find as many things happening at the same time.

> Climate change is putting stress on ecosystems that causes them to change more rapidly than they have in the past.

Is it? You keep reading this story and that story about how this crop failed, or changed or whatever, and they always blame climate change.

Then you check and see - oh yah, that also happened in this year and that year.

Climate change is becoming like dark energy - blame absolutely everything you don't understand on it.

Climate change is a very slow, very subtle process that is difficult to even see unless you look very closely. It's not responsible for every single thing that happens differently this year compared to last year.

Wait, so you want to blame absolutely everything on climate change, so that people get super scared and do something about it?

That doesn't seem dishonest to you?

For example the story in this article has exactly zero to do with climate change - but I assume you would be happy to blame it on climate change anyway?

> to avoid a whole bunch of extinction and ecosystem collapse

Really? Who is predicting that? Only in the worst case scenarios will that happen, and the data is not trending that way. You are so caught up in your desire to fearmonger-for-change that you have gone a full circle: Now you are trying to prevent a catastrophe you yourself invented.

And that attitude is why society's belief in the reliability of science has never been lower.

Tell the truth. Don't lie to get change.

We'll adjust just fine, we'll wreck the natural ecosystem doing it but in fairness we already did that anyway, UN reckons we have 38% of the earths land mass under some form of agriculture.

Wild Earth is going away, Garden Earth is coming, the first planet we terraform as a species will be Earth.

Note: I'm not saying this is a good thing but we will survive as a species and I wouldn't bet against us thriving.

That's like saying economic recession is a very slow and subtle process, and it's not responsible for every single person who lost job this year.

Which is perfectly true. In fact, you'll never be able to conclusively show that a single person is jobless because of the recession.

But when recession comes and millions lose jobs, I'll bet my ass that people will blame the economy and politicians will scramble to "do something".

An economic recession is not in the slightest a slow and subtle process, your comparisons are off by orders of magnitude.