My friend says
he has decided climate change is fake and nothing to worry about. He has
reached this conclusion, in part, because he simply has no more room for an
additional worry. He’s worried about the country’s extraordinary debt,
foreclosures in his neighborhood, his family’s health and economic welfare,
random violence. In other words, he has filled his worry locker with things
that might actually affect him today or tomorrow.
The time span for climate change, with
the worst not to happen for about 100 years, is also beyond his vision. So as
not to become overwhelmed by worry, he says, one must pick and chose what to
worry about. Climate change, the future success of the polar bears and the
viability of strange island communities in the Indian Ocean, is not one of
them.
I wonder...
