"Snow [i.e., the rapid loss of snowpack due to rising temperatures] is a reminder that, actually, a lot of the changes we’re dealing with aren’t that incremental. We may not be able to see rising temperatures in quite the same way. But in many cases, those changes are just as sudden and dramatic and are happening faster than people thought they were."
"The wildfires we saw last year, for example, were wildly out of proportion from anything we’ve seen before. Records aren’t getting broken by small degrees now. They’re getting broken by leaps and bounds."
@wdlindsy crisis in "civilized" societies tend to produce reactionary leaders. This is because people want "strong leadership", and to often now mistake narcissist personality traits for such things, the kind who probably will make the situation even worse, thereby creating greater desire for even ore of "strong leadership" in a viscous feedback loop to oblivion.