Is it too late to save the planet?

The planet will be fine. It has outlived worse than us.
What's at stake is smaller, and it is everything:
the reef, the harvest, the coastal town, the child in it.
Some of that is already gone. I won't pretend it isn't.
But "too late" imagines a single door that swings shut.
There is no door. There is a slope, and every tenth of a degree
is someone's home kept, someone's summer still survivable.
It is too late for some things. It is never too late for the next one.

No. It is too late for some things, not for everything.
Some reefs will not return; some shores are already leaving.
The Earth will continue without asking our permission.
What remains undecided is how much suffering we choose.
Every fraction of a degree prevented is a shelter.
No hero is coming; no single act is enough.
That does not make our hands useless.
Save what can still be saved. Begin now.