For Earth Day 2025, the world needs a reset on climate thinking. The first scientists who spoke out about climate change did so according to the facts and evidence, fighting harsh pressure from industries and denialists. But climate activism become more about political tribalism, social justice, and virtue signaling. I have spent half a decade now working with other climate entrepreneurs to do everything possible to fight the battle against climate change. And in that time, many of us have found that the Left is as bad as the Right when it comes to standing in the way of making real progress against this problem! Today’s politics are about vibes and tribes, not facts and evidence. Nowhere is this more on tragic display when it comes to climate policy and public discussion. In a scientific field so vastly complex and multidisciplinary as climate science, we can ill afford this! On this Earth Day 2025, we need a new era of climate thinking, one focused on practical solutions, real experiments, and the evidence they yield. Climate is many things, but it’s not about social justice. It’s not about decolonization. It’s not about capitalism or marxism. It’s not about the patriarchy. It is not about the bad guys vs the good guys. It is about gases in the atmosphere. Carbon footprint is not a moral sin, it is not something we need to “atone” for. It is a technical problem, a detail we missed, and a physical problem to be solved like any other. We are living together on a Spaceship Earth and we missed a key detail managing our atmospheric control systems. It is not a moral or social issue, it is a technical problem, and we need to solve it. And we will not solve the problem until we actually start solving the problem!! There are many many solutions, and whether one “side” prefers one vs the other is not the point. The point is whether it works and gets us closer to our goal. For example: Reforestation is effective at carbon capture and can be done almost anywhere by anyone! Natural gas is actually a great replacement for coal and amenable to carbon capture and sequestration! Solar power is great where there is a lot of land and sunlight! Nuclear power is great where there is little land and a highly-skilled workforce! Nuclear waste is a solved problem! Wacky windmill designs are provably inferior to large maximally amortizable 3-bladed designs! Really big dams are great but limited by available geography! High-voltage long-distance power lines need to be built to connect production and consumption! Stratospheric aerosol injection is affordable and effective and not the same thing as causing acid rain pollution! Finally, advocating carbon drawdown is not saying we don’t need to reduce emissions, so stop with that silliness! (Liking pancakes doesn’t mean you hate waffles!) All of these things (and many more) all fit into a giant portfolio of solutions that contribute to solving the problem. If this is a climate EMERGENCY, start acting like it: support all possible solutions, try out all experiments, and don’t give in to despair! Climate change is a problem we DESERVE: finally, as we climb our way up the Kardashev scale, we have reached a milestone where our activities are great enough to affect the planetary atmosphere and ecosystem. And of course we didn’t do a perfect job on our first try! We are lucky that we’re only a couple degrees off! We can fix this, if we focus on solving the problem! We will succeed if we focus on evidence-based problem-solving, and not be distracted by passing political and social fads. It’s 2025, and it is time for us to stop making climate change a proxy issue for our other political and social debates. Those debates aren’t going to go away any time soon. Some of them are timeless. And plenty of them are worthwhile debates. But climate change is a separate problem on its own, and it’s a problem we can solve. And we deserve, all of us, to live on a planet that’s healthy and beautiful - and it will be even sweeter, if we are the ones who helped make it so. After all, if we are going to visit other planets, it’s best to make sure our own house is in order first.