Humans are failing to comprehend the crisis of climate change due to “scientific reticence,” climate denialism, imaginative failure and basic fear, according to an article in Air Quality. The article highlights key aspects of the potential climate disaster that could result in another mass extinction event, including temperature increases, a collapse in the food supply due to drought and heat, the release of diseases from melting Arctic ice and the mutation of existing diseases, suffocating smog caused by pollution, increased war and migration, economic collapse, rising ocean levels and acidification, and human incomprehension of the issue.
Humans are failing to comprehend the crisis of climate change due to “scientific reticence,” climate denialism, imaginative failure and basic fear, according to an article in the New York Magazine. The article highlights key aspects of the potential climate disaster that could result in another mass extinction event, including temperature increases, a collapse in the food supply due to drought and heat, the release of diseases from melting Arctic ice and the mutation of existing diseases, suffocating smog caused by pollution, increased war and migration, economic collapse, rising ocean levels and acidification, and human incomprehension of the issue.