Even as climate scientists deliver ever shorter windows of time within which, they predict, we must act to stop runaway and catastrophic climate change, a widespread public sense of urgency in the United States is largely absent.
If most of the country disregards - or even never thinks about - climate change at all - why do some of us spend most of our waking lives endeavoring to halt the seemingly inevitable climatic downslide that could render much of our planet uninhabitable?
Shouldn't we hang up our environmentalist hats in despair and retreat to more pleasurable activities?
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