Most people, at this point, believe that climate change is a real thing that will harm future generations of humans. And yet, a cognitive dissonance exists around that knowledge and our sense of immediacy: A much smaller percentage of people believe that climate change is impacting them personally, according to Yale’s climate survey program.
It is indeed impacting humans right now, with clear and compelling evidence that the global average temperature is much higher than anything modern society has experienced. And that has lead us to a whole host of issues, some of which WIRED writer Adam Rogers discusses with the Gadget Lab on this week’s podcast.
So what can we humans do to fix things – and how much of it can actually be fixed by personal responsibility, versus widespread policy? How much of our own consumption of tech actually adds to the problem? We asked Adam these questions and more.
