CENTRAL MAINE • August 7, 2024
It is well-known that climates are changing worldwide; and that human activities are primarily responsible for it. Nonetheless, there is still a sizable number of people who deny that any such thing as human-induced environmental trouble even exists. Planet-wide pollution and habitat destruction have led directly to environmental disasters, climate change and mass extinction of species. There is no doubt about this, according to the climate scientists. But the denial — which is the denial of reality itself — has been persistent and discouraging. Climate change denial has to be a finalist for a lifetime-achievement Darwin Award. ~ Dana Wilde