Modern humans are great in emergencies but increasingly hopeless at preventing emergencies from happening in the future. And completely inept at visualising exponential change. Climate change is too big a concept for most of us to conceptualise, let alone work out how to react smart and responsibly. As a result, climate change deniers have a field day and climate scientists have so little impact changing minds. So let's keep it simple. Everyone surely understands: there are consequences to shitting on your own doorstep. Ecosystems are breaking down before our eyes. They need restoring. If left to deteriorate, everyone will learn soon enough that broken ecosystems lead to hydrological breakdown, which drives changes in rainfall which is game over for stable life on earth. Everyone knows how to stop polluting. If we choose to keep wrecking local ecosystems, and remain paralysed and defiant that the climate is just fine, then shame on mankind.