Released amid record-breaking temperatures and rising seas, the survey reports an alarming decline in perceived urgency.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/WzxgU
Released amid record-breaking temperatures and rising seas, the survey reports an alarming decline in perceived urgency.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/WzxgU
I mean, we keep hearing breathlessly alarmed articles about how “this year is a tipping point!” and “if we don’t do X by next year it’s all over!” And then those dates pass, and either new dates are announced or they’re just forgotten about.
Crying wolf means that when the actual wolf comes nobody pays attention any more.
We are beyond the tipping point. Just look at this year. We have floods that are dumping in days what used to take months, and we have droughts never seen in the modern age.
Well, there you go. How can you expect people to pay attention when you’re telling them there’s nothing they can do?
That’s not what I’m saying. We are past the point of being able to reverse the harm already done, but we can still limit the future harm. And that is critical. The current world is still livable, alternative is portions of the world becomes unlivable.
And who knows, maybe some future tech will make possible what is impossible today.
It’s the difference between what they can do and what they’re willing to do. Future generations will think us fools.