Denial

    62% of people worldwide in 2018 said they are satisfied with efforts in their country to preserve the environment, according to a Gallup poll. How is this possible? The climate emergency is escalating, biodiversity loss is accelerating, the oceans are turning into a plastic soup, forests are burning and chemicals are toxifying land, water, air and food. There are only two plausible explanations. The first is ignorance: perhaps the public does not know how serious the environmental problems are. And the second is denial: people assume that activity by governments, business and civil society must mean things are improving.

    — Wayne Visser

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