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Originally Posted by Xringer
Well, if things start going south in a hurry, that might make people sit up and pay attention... As things stand now, people are more worried about things that could adversely effect them in the very near future.
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This is the major shortcoming of the biological and behavioral systems that evolution has bequeathed to us. We are fight or flight creatures trapped inside of a slow motion catastrophe.
Science goes outside of our short attention span, and limited sensory apparatus to give us information about climate change. The information we receive from science is abstract, compared to threats we face in an immediate time frame.
This is really the test of humans, to see if we will survive. No other animal has the ability to throw nature so far out of balance as we do.
But we may not have the wherewithal to respond to this slow moving situation in time to save our kind.
Estimates are that people of your grand children's generation will begin to feel the full force of the results of generations of stupidity.
-AC