Paul Kingsnorth is a British environmentalist...like some of us, he has found himself around those who just are in denial of climate change, have no interest in it, or think doomsday scenarios are 'being negative'. Like him, we also are probably the most idealistic and optimistic people around if anyone got to know us and we came to the truth that the planet has past the point of fixing, through much research and personal revelation and honest assessment that led to a sickening heartache, then a burning desire to INFORM the public now to get ready and be prepared out of wisdom and maturity for what is to come and is already happening. This is an excellent interview he did with the New York Times...  "For Kingsnorth, the notion that technology will stave off the most catastrophic effects of global warming is not just wrong, it’s repellent — a distortion of the proper relationship between humans and the natural world and evidence that in the throes of crisis, many environmentalists have abandoned the principle that “nature has some intrinsic, inherent value beyond the instrumental.” If we lose sight of that ideal in the name of saving civilization, he argues, if we allow ourselves to erect wind farms on every mountain and solar arrays in every desert, we will be accepting a Faustian bargain."   
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/magazine/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-he-feels-fine.html?_r=0