No time to say hello - goodbye! - we’re late, we’re late, we’re late! (1)

Why do we, the People, ignore the urgency of global warming? Sure, since Gore’s movie we’ve been paying more attention to a careening climate, but we don’t write home about it. We’re willing to change a few lightbulbs, but not to make any of the fundamental changes necessary to save the future (near as well as distant). We act like there’s a dribbling leak in our bathtubs, denying that it’s a gusher in our teetering lifeboat. Why?

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