2577. Amazon until...
There is a man and his family with something big growing in their backyard. In this case it is the Amazon Forest. He hears that the forest is in trouble and seems to be dying. Will he do anything about it? No. Simply because there is no alternative. We are past the tipping point.
Thee is a neighbor works thirty-five miles away in the US Post Office. He drops his two children at two different schools (Grade) on the way to work He feels blessed that the timings work out and the children only need to use up an hour before and after to meet up with their father. Climate change? Nõ gas for the car? Forget about it.
Until we deal with these actual lives that seem to arise in the work of reporters or anthropologists, but not social scientists nor policy makers, nothing will happen to respond at local nor at scale to the crisis.