Viewpoint

“We are on track for 3 degrees of warming, measured in Celsius, a catastrophe of truly incomprehensible proportions. We are engineering a world that will be lethal for untold millions. I don’t believe this reveals our true preference for the world our descendants will inhabit. I believe it reveals our deeply human inability to take the future as seriously as we take the present. We don’t feel the pain of others as our own, because there are social constraints on our actions and imaginations, because the future is an abstraction, and the pleasures of this instant are a siren.” Ezra Klein in The New York Times