There's a new wave of trying to explain why people don't take climate heating seriously. As a scientist working in the field for more than 25 years, I am sick and tired of all these explanations for people refusing to take science seriously. I know ... insisting won't help. But all this "it's too abstract", "you don't explain it well enough", "people just can't relate", all this baby-stepping of rational thought, this renegotiating of its value every f'ing time ... is not a sign of a civilization in these planetary times. Sure, emotions rule, people form identity tribes, and they have to live under capitalist circumstances. But when have we given up even trying to be a civilization?