Why don't most people care about pollution?

Abraham Mireles, studied at Monterrey Institute of Technology

Have you ever heard about how lobsters are cooked?

If you threw it at boiling water it would try to escape, but if you heated the water slowly, the lobster would die slowly and without resisting.

We humans are the lobster.

It’s true that nobody likes pollution in theory.

In practice the harsh truth is that pollution effects are so long term most people don’t even notice them and they might as a well not be there.

Yes, pollution is bad, but its subtlety is what makes it dangerous.

You see polluted air from the outskirts of your city and you worry. But in your everyday life, it’s pretty much invisible.

Though you might wonder why there are no stars

We hear how separating trash is important. And it is. But in your average day life. As as soon as the garbage man takes it, it stops being relevant in your life.

Global warming is real. No doubt. But you have to admit, it’s not something your average person would discover on their own. It really is invisible.

Even an intelligent scientist like Richard Muller was (but not anymore) skeptical about global warming.

Those melting ice caps? You only see them in photos.

Climate being weirder? Days being warmer? Most people shrug it off

It’s not like you can change climate anyway, right? (Wrong)

This is a danger your instincts warn you about.

But this?

It just doesn’t happen as naturally.