The dangers of adopting an apocalyptic mindset when addressing the issue of climate change

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Today it is the West that foists an apocalyptic imagination on the rest of the world. The best antidote to the doom merchants is skepticism. We must be willing to take uncertainty seriously. Climate change is a fact. But apocalyptic thinking distorts the scientific debate and makes it harder to explain the causes and consequences of this fact, which in turn makes it harder to know how to deal with it.