I think climate scientists (and journalists) are underestimating people. If you treat people like children who can’t handle the truth, they will behave like children. Like teenagers, actually, wasting time like it’s in endless supply. Yes, there are plenty of people who prefer denial. But I bet just as many want the truth, painful as it is. We deserve a shot at rising to the occasion.

Americans in particular are the biggest children on the planet. We’ve been treated like children for so long that the entire society is infantile. So, I don’t think climate scientists are underestimating people.