Heroes to criminals, the spectrum in climate activism

Wind power can, and is, partly replacing fossil fuel burning power stations, solar power is too, but nowhere near fast enough to limit climate change and related problems as quickly as is needed.

In the table below I have roughly rated people in terms of their admirability or culpability in their activism in regard to protecting (or harming) the future of this, our only and beloved, planet Earth. Some people could be placed in several of the groups.

Admirability-Cupablity	Size of group	Individuals, groups
The heroes	Very small, < 0.01%	The people who have high public profiles and are using them to try to get action on climate change; people like Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough and Tim Flannery (I have listed some of the Australians I know who are doing their best elsewhere on these pages).
Active supporters of climate change action	Small, < 1%	Those of us who recognise the need to act and are doing what we see as being within our limited means and abilities
Supporters of climate change action	Very large	Those who recognise the need to act, but don't do much because they feel powerless, 'too small to make a difference' or whatever other reason
Too busy surviving to be aware	Very large	Those, mainly but not entirely in the Third World, whose lives are dominated by the challenges of day-to-day survival
Fence sitters	Large	Those who are not convinced by the (ample) evidence
Don't care	Large	Those who may be aware, but can't be bothered concerning themselves about it
God is in control	Large?	All those who think that if God didn't want climate change he would stop it from happening, or that our concern should be with the 'spiritual', not worldly matters, and similar way of hiding their heads in the sand
Those who reject the science through ignorance or shear pig-headedness	Large	Those who don't believe that climate change is happening or don't want to believe it or don't believe it is being caused by Mankind's actions. A sub-group would be those who decided that anthropogenic climate change was not happening decades ago and are unwilling to admit that they were and are wrong, irrespective of the steadily increasing evidence that they are.
Those who choose not to believe because they see this as being to their short-term advantage	Large	The people who see their immediate future advantage in supporting the fossil fuel industry because they hope for employment there or their business depends on the industry, etc.
Liars	Small	Those who know that anthropogenic climate change is a fact but still dishonestly oppose action
The criminals	Very small, < 0.01%	Those in positions of power who knowingly lie in order to support the fossil fuel industry or simply what they see as their own selfish interests. People like Donal Trump and Rupert Murdoch, and in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, ex PM Tony Abbott, the greedy whose wealth comes from the fossil fuel industry such as Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer, and then there's the professional liars including Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones.