Ignorance will not be bliss ... (Score 1)

Americans will only start caring when they lose some coastal cities. The sad thing is, that global warming is a relatively slow effect, it doesnt give the big bang that a hurricane or earthquake does ... so it slowly creeps in and over time will do much more damage that what most quick natural disasters could do, and the effects will be permanent. The entire time ignorance will be the key to keeping the population in the dark about the threats to their lovely house with a coastal view. But as usual, the loss of life have been given a price, cause afterall, it would be more expensive to do something about it than to sit there and wait for it to happen.