Except nobody was crying wolf. If we took the problem seriously back then, we wouldn't be fucked now. The reality is that we're living through a mass extinction driven by climate change. Over 60% of animals have gone extinct since the 70s.
The fact that people are looking at the world today and asking where's the problem is beyond belief.
It's not beyond belief; it's that it's happening so slowly that it's not perceived by the common person. And the "crying wolf" that people upthread were referring to was the "this will be irreversible in N years" specifically, not the broader threat of climate change generally.
"Over 60% of animals have gone extinct since the 70s"
Citations?
Might be referring to this [1], but it concludes population sizes have gone down 60%, which doesn't sound good either, but is still a different story.