Reading an article headlined "Climate facts to warm to" (evidently, since 1998 - for the last 10 years - global temperature patterns have plateaued or even dropped), I came across this quote:

"It is tempting to the layman to embrace with enthusiasm the latest bleak scenario because it fits the darkness of our soul, the prevailing cultural pessimism....Pessimism is intellectually delicious, even thrilling, but the matter before us is too serious for mere self-pleasuring. It would be self-defeating if the environmental movement degenerated into a religion of gloomy faith." - source.

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