"Know what we haven't tried? Feminist leadership."

Climate tourist Jonathan Franzen has penned a new essay in the New Yorker, adding his voice to the “serious” pundits encouraging people to be “realistic” and accept that there is little we can do to prevent the worst from climate change, pundits like fellow tourists Jonathan Rich and David Wallace-Wells.

Maddeningly, publications like the New Yorker keep printing these doom-and-gloom essays despite plenty of brilliant thinkers who see things much differently.    There is at least one noticeable difference between these two camps: the doom and gloom types are for the most part old, wealthy, white guys.

As long these guys think we screwed no matter what, why don’t they shut up so we can hear from the women who say they see a way forward.  

Women like Dr. Katharine Wilkinson above, who beautifully spotlighted the glaring tunnel vision of the "we're toast" bros.

What’s the worst that could happen, saving the world?