To alarmists, every year seems worse than the last and social media has a way of magnifying everything into an earth-shattering event. The focus is on ourselves and the many ways in which we precipitate crises, in government, in the market, in a political party or group. The really serious news, like the genocide in Yemen, or the electronic enslavement of Uighur dissidents in China, is pushed to the back pages. And the only time climate, the one literally earth-shattering crisis, makes it t