Our sense of time spans two generations back in the past and two generations forward into the future. That’s it. Most people cannot name a single great-grandparent. Few parents can conceive of the possibility of their child someday becoming a grandparent. It’s our historical and future-looking myopia that makes it pretty much impossible to for us to even imagine the distant future.

“Why we won’t stop climate change” an op-ed of doom published by Al Jazeera today.
#climate change  #environment  #pollution  #sustainability  #psychology  #science  #al jazeera  
∞  01/20/13 at 03:28pm via aljazeera.com
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