Melting glacier? Yawn. Climate change is boring, worthy – and terrifying

It’s the existential threat to our species, and it bores us to tears. Admit it. You think the consequences of human-driven climate change are terrifying, but it seems too abstract, too technical and too long term. A recent poll in the USfound that, while most Americans accepted that the climate was indeed changing, less than a quarter admitted to be either extremely or very worried about it.