We tend not to notice these any more, after all this is Mass Extinction Number Six we have already been through five and survived albeit never before as humans.
Its sort of like the IPCC reports, Here we are Report Number Five already released in final draft last June, and nobody seems all that freaked out. I mean we are at 0.8 ° C of warming since the beginning of the industrial revolution and if you took it back to the Neolithic it wouldn't be that much more. In a few years we'll be at 1 ° C, then some where between 2035 and 2050 at 2 ° C, and then by 2100 4 ° C or maybe more.
We have had Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, shots across our bow so to speak, California is drying out, burning and turning into a desert, deserts being the best evidence of human habitation our planet provides. In the news we have the Polar Vortex warming Alaska and Siberia and freezing the Midwest and sometimes the East Coast and the South, Australia is on fire, 100 east coast cities are realizing that sea levels are rising so fast sea walls and levees can't save them and the IPCC is in dry scientific jargon patiently explaining that the tropics may be uninhabitable by the end of the century.
As we become aware that what we thought was our having entered the twilight zone is just our having entered the the Anthropocene, we may observe that we have a little problem, our planet is calling us into its offices and telling us our services are no longer required.
"Your Firing Us?"
"To be blunt about it yes."
Now there aren't a lot of other planets out there hiring at the moment.
We do have an alternative and a choice. It comes down to would we prefer to be shot in the head or the stomach. Being shot in the stomach is a painful way to die but very few people are going to choose to shoot themselves in the head to avoid that. As humans no matter how bad things get we think we can survive it.
Now all we need to do is convince the seven billion people speaking 4000 different languages that we might think of as the board of directors of this planet that the down sizing might take a different route and we can avoid being put in the situation, we don't need to wait until the 100 year storms become ten year storms and then business as usual.
We can march into their consciousness laptops and tell them we all need to stop burning carbon now and thus give up cheap fossil fuel energy and civilization as we know it right now!
Unfortunately the energy companies have beaten us to it and somewhat efficiently for people to whom money is no object over the last 200 years convinced everyone that we need to work for a living and buy their carbon and burn it.