Guardian: In all those sci-fi horror stories foretelling the end of the world, the imagined reaction was never boredom. Panic and hysteria, yes. Sex with strangers, most certainly. We could picture all that at the moment doomsday loomed. But inertia, inattention and a shrugging desire to turn over to the other channel well, HG Wells never foresaw that.
Yet that is the collective reaction of our species to the warnings that we are frying our planet. People barely discuss climate change. Research shows...