Opinions of the enormity of the climate crisis range from President Trump's denial (Jacobson, 2016) to the belief that we are experiencing the sixth mass extinction (Ceballos, Ehrlich, & Dirzo, 2017). In November 2016 on New Zealand television, Emeritus Professor Guy McPherson stated he could not imagine a human left on the planet in ten years, and that was three years ago (Newshub, 2016). More recently he has stated, "To put it simply, our fate as a species is sealed. We're headed for extinction in the very near term" (McPherson, 2018, para. 20). These perspectives are poles apart on a continuum of opinion. The deniers are not motivated to reduce climate crisis drivers, while others on the continuum face the dilemma of how to respond.
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