BANG = fight, flight or freeze has worked well so far. Another handy evolutionary tweak is that we tend to focus on immediate threats to our survival, before we stare down the more remote ones, be they distant by time or geography.
This explains why so many people – even smart, well-read people – are in a dream state regarding how bad the climate crisis is
Science journalists are not immune to the same survival responses
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