Imagine you’re fifty-five years old. Not elderly. Not young. But you could have had another twenty or thirty good years ahead. Only you don’t. You’ve just been diagnosed with stage 4, terminal cancer. As a reasonably moral person, how would we react? Our decision will also determine what we do in the face of devastating climate change. When I was a child, I was shocked to discover that people facing death didn’t suddenly become nicer, more righteous. They were about to meet God, after all.
