Gee, thanks!: Eric Krasnauskas thinks that maybe he'll come up with a way to prevent CO2-induced bad weather while playing video games or watching the Celtics?

Internalizing the Threat of Climate Change: The World Will Never Be the Same : Living Green Magazine

These days I tend to beat myself up for screwing around; my biggest time sinks are video games (I never did quite kick my Civilization 5 habit) and television (my beloved Boston Celtics are kind of out in the wilderness). The reason, I think, is that I’ve internalized the threat of climate change. I feel it in my guts, hanging over me, demanding a response…so naturally any leisure time I afford myself ends up feels like a betrayal.

It’s not healthy of course. We all need time to decompress and set our minds right, and often enough the best ideas and breakthroughs come when we’re doing something else entirely. Yet it’s still hard to rationalize taking the time to pilot Napoleon through the Industrial Age or scream obscenities at LeBron James when you see a hard stop to human civilization looming. Time now feels precious.