Governments 'not on track' to cap temperatures at below 2 degrees: U.N
Could it be that the human brain just cannot relate to or care about large-scale and long-term problems without continually making a conscious effort to?<p>It seems that as long as our immediate lives are good enough, we're fine with everything.<p>Does that make our species incapable of expanding beyond our home planet let alone the solar system? Because those undertakings require a fundamental reconfiguration of how we operate and interact.<p>So far the best "hack" we've found for keeping things going is money: Someone finds a way to make money from projects that may or may not <i>happen to</i> advance the species as a whole, convinces people to work on those projects with the offer of money, and those people use money to improve their immediate lives.<p>So until someone needs to find a way to make money from keeping climate change in check, there's probably nothing to be done about it until it directly impacts people's ability to make money and affects their immediate lives.