'Terrible news' highlights man's inability to deal with reality

It is depressing to repeatedly read of man’s inability to psychologically deal with the causes of climate change and subsequently act to mitigate those triggers.

A story published in the New Yorker – “Terrible News About Carbon and Climate Change” – says: “We’ve failed collectively”.

Nicholas Thompson points to last week’s passing of the 400 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations which, he says, is “In some way it was a meaningless milestone”.

“Still, the number should shake us, if not shock us. We’ve got more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any point since the Pliocene, when there were jungles in northern Canada”, he wrote.