The Maldive Islands used up all their fresh drinking water in 1992 and are expected to retreat beneath the rising sea levels within the next 20 years. The Gaza Strip, already burdened by the war its terrorist government inaugurated, became ecologically uninhabitable in 2020. In 1985, air pollution halved the amount of sunlight reaching the planet’s surface. Children stopped remembering what snow even was sometime in the last decade. In 2013, the Arctic became irrevocably ice-free. The “world is going to end” before this decade is out, and every last human being will be dead by the end of next year.
To say that these predicted scenarios of imminent climatological catastrophe have become forgettable background radiation is too charitable. At least background radiation is actually harmful. Climate change, by contrast, is a manageable phenomenon that does not present an existential threat to humanity’s survival. At least, not according to Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates.
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