The facts on global warming are clear. We are shooting straight toward a cliff and may already be over the edge. But no three-year-old believes the plate is hot until she burns herself at least once. Turns out the rest of us—even the most educated among us—are often no different.
One possible approach: make sure people experience what it’s like to live on a warming planet rather than reading about it.
The trick, of course, is to have people experience the effects without living through them in real time, when it’s likely too late.
