To Hope or Not to Hope: How Fearful Should We Be of Climate Destabilization and Catastrophic Climate Destabilization? Catastrophic climate destabilization. Sounds scary, right? Well, quite frankly, most of the projected impacts of our changing climate are, in fact, very scary. But is fear useful to us in this situation?
Scientific knowledge does limit the imagination, but only in the same healthy way that sanity limits what we take as real. — Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams