What, we should respond to the till debateble global warming with a fight or flight.

If by suck, you mean that in response to unclear indications, with no clear solution, people are having trouble planning a course of action -- I would agree.

While there are many today who would suggest that they know a rapid and certain response to a threat that they are certain is upon us, there are others who debate various aspects of the threat and the proposed solutions.

I would suggest that it might take longer to formulate a proper response to a complex situation, than it does to respond to an immediate and clear situation, which has been encountered many times previously.

What sucks in this article is the logic.

This might be obvious but most good things are.

I think that the reason we might have a larger part of out brain dedicated to situations that are immediate vs those that will happen later is simply the fact that we unconsciously recognize that when faced with a mad grizzly and global warming, global warming can wait and see if you are still alive after being mauled. So the obvious reason is we should worry about things that are happening to us now because if we don't, what might happen in the future might never happen at all.

Evolution being the reason that we are scared of a grizzly? That is simply ridiculous. If evolution was the true reason for fear and objectivity then we would be born into it not develop it later in life because society taught us how to act.

I totaly disagree with this article.

What we are talking about is the comparison of individual response to a immediate threat vs the collective response of all people in the world to a forecast event.

I've heard plenty of stories about people living in hiding awaiting for the appocalipse, alien invation or something of the sort. They are examples of the long term threat response of the brain which is being called un-developed.

Global warming is a still debated issue. Scientists are clammouring to save the plannet (Annother example of the so called under developed response). The ordinary person does not spend his life thinking about global warming. Therefore it does not get enough attention from society as a whole. This is partly a weakness of the political system, that what is out of mind of the news networks gets ignored.

I think its wrong to blame this on the brain, when society is simply not acting. Besides scientists are not quite sure even. Afterall as much as global warming is a crisis, so was global cooling a few decades ago (due to man made dust clouds).

humans are uniquly gifted with the ability to rewire our own emotions over time, or have them rewired by exeriences, and choose to continue to keep those emotions as such. In other words, we can train and retrain our minds through deliberate experience. So, we could rewire our brains to respond to the big GW by treating Almost Then as Now, and developing behaviors that seem conciously pointless to flight or fight, but in a long term unconcious persepctive, fighting the problem (by behaviors i mean recycling, educung emissions out put, etc). Now as a part of responding to the big GW, the US has willfully submitted a part of our concious action to our goverment (whether an inherited submission, or a concious affimation on our individual part), Therefore, the goverment should take responsibility with this enourmous pool of concious action, and do something to work against GW. Heck, all governments should do that. However, the government is also run by humans, who, as all other humas do, can work best with whatever information we have understood and affirmed. a collective ignorance really screws us over.
If you have read this all the way, thank you for doing so, and listening to my views. Perhaps you disagree, or perhaps these will influence your own ideals for the better.
Again, Thanks!

sorry , double-post.
Glabal cooling has disguised some of the evidence for global warming according to some studies (according to a NOVA documenttary i saw).
synthesizing some of chathu50's ideas ad my own, you see that is not just the brain, and not just society, but a combination of the two.