So-called climate change deniers reject the conclusion that 97% of climate scientists have reached: the planet is warming because of human activities. The distance between awareness and feeling can make it very difficult for even thoughtful and politically engaged people – people who want to act – to act. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although many of climate change’s accompanying calamities – extreme weather events, floods and wildfires, displacement and resource scarcity chief among them – are vivid, personal and suggestive of a worsening situation, they don’t feel that way in aggregate. But even when we know that a war for our survival is raging, we don’t feel that it is our war.
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