Stephan:   Climate change is just one of the massive transitions facing us. As this report lays out very quickly we are becoming a majority minority population. Existentially, this is going to mean that being born White will no longer confer privilege. I had a conversation with a Black friend a few weeks ago, and we got to talking about Ferguson, and he  said to me "No man my color reaches adulthood, who grows up in a city, without unpleasant experiences involving the police." And as he said it, I saw the chasm that is normally invisible. My experience was just the opposite. Here is a picture of the shifting demographics of the United States. This is a huge deal, in my mind one of the great meta-trends. It helps explain why racism has risen so prominently into our consciousness, and it is one of the reasons why fundamentalist movements like the Quiverfull Christians emphasize high birth rates. This is also what is going to doom the Republican Party, and they know it, which is why they are working so fervently at voter suppression and gerrymandering. We are going to be facing both climate change and this demographic shift in the same time range. That is why, as a presentiment effect, fear is both so widespread, and so easily manipulated.