Last year, after decades of scientists warning that continued pushing of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere would eventually trigger imbalances in Nature, the world set a record for the release of greenhouse gas emissions. Nature has been responding with extreme weather, disrupting humans’ lives and causing increasing damages; the costs are starting to mount. Three terms capture the climate change issue in its current state: Whiplash, the sudden revelation of new, surprising and undesirable consequences of climate change; Tipping Points, the markers that separate life as everyone knows it from the unpredictability of a destabilized environment; and Solastalgia, the human yearning for a life already destroyed by changes in the environment. In the midst of these tensions about the climate, corporations and national governments are pulling back from promises made to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The combination of increasing risks to the planet and the reluctance of for-profit and public institutions to do something about those risks has provoked scientists to expand experiments into extreme responses, all to extend the timeframe in which humans can complete the task of ending their use of fossil fuels.