Lol yeah I'm sure China has really helped solve the acid rain crisis

The Helsinki Protocol on the Reduction of Sulfur Emissions was 1985. China wasn't doing a hell of a lot of air pollution back then.

The point is there is a huge industry of chicken littles proclaiming the sky is falling and other inconvenient truths.

Other way around. There's a huge industry of fossil fuel PR groups trying to stop people and countries from moving to other energy sources, trying to make the facts out to be unsure or wrong. The fossil fuel industry is revenue was $5.3 trillion in 2023. So they can spend a lot of money on science denial, as the tobacco industry did, and encourage people to put themselves at risk rather than have their profits interfered with.

There's no such money on the other side. No one owns the solar reserves nor the wind reserves. That alone should give you an hint about who's lying, even without noticing that a lot of the climate misinformation is coming from the same sources and the same scientists that did the tobacco-cancer denial earlier. Or that 99% of scholarly papers back up the scientific consensus.

You're easily influenced by these panic inducing proclamations, "WE MUST ACT NOW!!!" Meanwhile the solutions offered are often worse than the problem.

Are they though?

When you get an economist on to it, they seem to have findings like you got in the Stern Review which was included: "the costs of stabilising the climate are significant but manageable; delay would be dangerous and much more costly"