Saying your car will break down if you drive it with the oil light on is a unhealthy attitude towards car maintenance
The check engine light pops up on your car. You are busy with life and commuting and so you bring it in a few weeks/ months after it came on. You finally get around to bring it into the mechanic.
The mechanic tells you its too late to fix the thing. You fucked up by driving around with the check engine light on and its now beyond repair.
Its not the mechanics fault you lack the emotional maturity for bad news.
Mechanic analogy doesn’t really apply to climate change. You’d have make the car drive forever, become increasingly costly, eat your food and kill people while the mechanic will be able to repair it if you bring it in everyday for a long time. Bringing it to the mechanic would then also slow the deterioration and slowly make it better instead of it just getting worse.
It’s a bit late for getting 1800’s climate back within our lifetime but it’s not to late to prevent it from getting worse.
I think what you meant is saying “your engine oil is on, it’s too late to take the car to the garage” is an unhealthy attitude towards car maintenance.
