If humans can do anything now to stop global warming, wouldn’t the press be pressing you to get it done? Of course, they would.

When the reckless war in Iraq began, wasn’t it the press who let you know it was a mistake just two or three years later? When banks were loaning your money on obscenely over-inflated home values, didn’t the fourth estate investigate and tell you about it as soon as world markets began their collapse? Where would your finances be if the world news didn’t keep you believing in the security of the securities racket?

Rest assured that as soon as the planet sinks into permanent ecological disaster, the news coverage—rich, full and retroactively informative— will be there. Until then, why tax those highly evolved brains by thinking for yourself? You’ve never had to before.