> "Blah happened at City/Nation and it is potentially a planet ending event."
It's hard to take Chicken Little serious. All of the sensationalism feels like a magician waving a cloth with one hand, to distract the audience from the other hand.
There's consensus that a very bad thing is happening, its effects are already being felt, and they will get much worse over time. Scientists have tried to communicate this in every way, but people have hemmed and hawed or outright denied it for so long that it's going to be bad no matter what at this point. There are still things that can be done to reduce the impact, but the picture isn't good.
As it applies to all, and yet, they all end up blaming end users in one way or another while patently ignoring the forces that drive public policies... Profit, industry, Guv regs & profit.
I know, I know, profit deserves two mentions.
Yes, this will be painful to those who have to adapt or relocate. But it is a form of NIMBYism.
If fish die, surely some other life form will fill that niche, and we'll eat that. It's not as though humans are the most adaptive life form in existence.