We're just not wired to think about things at that scale and over long periods of time. IMO the reason we're taking climate change as seriously as we are now is

We're just not wired to think about things at that scale and over long periods of time. IMO the reason we're taking climate change as seriously as we are now is because of the visceral evidence provided by the hurricanes of the last couple of years. We collectively need things to be observably happening right now in order to believe they are true.