Yeah, Citizen_Kong, and knowing, seeing it happen everywhere, we still have to keep going through our business-as-usual lifes and watch the trainwreck of the human species happen. The funny thing is, as long as there are no sudden and extreme events, everyone will still be doing business-as-usual 50 years from now. The business is going to be harsh, the environment is going to be harsher, but it'll be as-usual. Fuck me, should consider going back to drinking.
I live in an area in the U.S. that is very right wing. Our publicly elected sheriff burns a cross before election season. Normally we have a very wet spring. It rained twice this spring. It rained once again in June, and again a few weeks ago. We have had record breaking temperatures all summer. Where we normally have several feet of snowfall, this winter we had inches. People complain about the weather we're having and I look them in the eye and say, "Climate change." Then their eyes widen and they look scared and don't say anything. Not a single one. They know it, but they can't accept it.
Like the article says, human beings seem to be psychologically unable to grasp such a monumental change until it's upon us.
But it is ALREADY upon us! What more do we need? We have megadrought in California, floods everywhere else, constant need for FEMA intervention... I'll bet if it were actually raining men, Congress would call a special session.