New Yorker: ‘Has climate change made it harder for people to care about conservation?’
'hifting of goalposts' - 'Ten years ago, we were told that we had ten years to take the kind of drastic actions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius in this century. Today we hear, from some of the very same activists, that we still have ten years.'
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/06/carbon-capture
I accepted its supremacy as the environmental issue of our time, but I felt bullied by its dominance. Not only did it make every grocery-store run a guilt trip; it made me feel selfish for caring more about birds in the present than about people in the future.
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Climaticmatic stress are not well studied, but birds have been adapting to such stresses for tens of millions of years, and they’re surprising us all the time.
