Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Discusses the harms caused by global warming now and in the foreseeable future, and seeks to explain the lack of an adequate response to it. Relevant here are cognitive defects that prevent us from fully grasping the facts as well as lobbying efforts by those who are better able to protect themselves from climate change and have a lot to lose from efforts to avert it.