Why don't we treat climate change with the rigor we give to terror attacks? | Ruth Greenspan Bell

They're both extreme hazards, but evolutionary responses favor real-time threats, not those that take place on an extended time scale

Extreme weather, water shortages and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like Zika are all having very real effects on everyday realities globally, and they are all linked to a fast-heating earth system. Yet we still don't treat climate change with the reverence we reserve for something like a terrorist attack.

Maybe the blame goes deeper, into our very natures: evolution did not design our bodies to treat climate change with urgency.