(Making this forum post because I missed the in class discussion on 4/17)
McCarthy talks a bit about the psychology of climate change and her theory about why people don't respond to it as much as, say, a public health crisis is because it's pretty invisible on the short time scale. In addition, there are no tangible solutions to the climate change crisis. Her theory involves on making it accessible and visible to people (focusing on extreme weather phenomenon, for example). The problem, also, with climate change is that because the theory is so intangible its opposers find it easy to refute the data, aka the reports that are produced from scientific evidence that put real numbers to the climate problem. McCarthy also talks a lot about how renewable energy will theoretically be better for the consumer and the planet. Overall, McCarthy's perspective on the future of the earth and climate change is very solution-oriented and forward thinking, relying more on theoretical models and broad overviews that appeal to human, personal motivations than data-driven efforts.