As the message of climate change becomes clearer and more immediate, as the call to act now becomes so much more plaintive, and the severity of the situation outweighs any reasonable argument…we opt out.
We are all paying lip service to the climate change truth. We all feel that we should drive less, fly less, use less electricity, buy less things; but how long will it take before we get round to it? As a society we wallow comfortably and numbly in the thought that just one more flight will do no harm. The earth can handle those extra miles per gallon, or that air conditioning unit left on all day. It will be ok.
Climate change apathy has become The New Alcoholism.
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