It took an actual meteor over Russia exploding with 25 times the power of the atom bomb in Hiroshima to convince people that maybe we should start doing something about (possible asteroid collisions). I’m almost embarrassed for my species that you can be so blind to everything experts have been telling you and you got to wait for people to almost die to say, “Oh, I guess they are out there.”Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist
I hardly need to point out the parallels with climate change.