The human brain responds best to threats when they are clear, and certain. That unfortunate truth helps explain why we’re struggling to take action on climate change…The problem with climate change, and the floods, droughts, hurricanes and fires that come with it: the threats are only going to get more frequent and more intense, but they are, by their very nature, erratic… The uncertainty that is baked into this crisis is all the more reason to take urgent and decisive action to address it.
— “Climate change is both predictable and unpredictable. We don’t need certainty to know it’s a crisis,” Salon.com