It is difficult to find an issue with greater global implications than environmental change. It sounds simplistic, but the environment is everywhere. In fact, everything we do, feel and experience can be correlated with our environment. Whether we like it or not, or whether we believe it or not, our environment has been significantly modified, probably with an anthropogenic component, since humanity existed. It is well understood that this human influence has manifested itself primarily in recent centuries, correlating with our desire for scientific knowledge, our thirst for industrial expansion, and our insatiable desire for progress. History helps highlight various events or topics that have a global aspect, but very few compare to environmental change. Most were regional or national in scope with some worldwide connections. The various wars of the 20th and 21st centuries have been considered global due to the large number of nations involved, but even these left some parts of the world untouched. There is one commonality between all world events: collective and individual fear (Weber and Stern, 2011). Shermer (2011) stated that there is an appeal to the many apocalyptic scenarios, including global environmental change, and that there is indeed a logical human connection; it’s in our psyche. We are apparently more attracted to disaster and death than to peace and well-being, obtaining a kind of satisfaction that we do not recognize as being linked to our ancient ancestors. Shermer also discovered that our brains are wired in such a way because our ancestors' decision-making process concluded that danger lurked behind every bush and so the best way to deal with it was to assume that there was indeed there was danger everywhere; prevention is better than cure middle of paper ......e expectations and results; something we don't like and which perpetuates the cycle of anxiety. Works Cited Doherty, TJ and Clayton, S. (2011). The psychological impacts of global climate change. American Psychologist, 66(4), 265-276. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0023141Ehrlich PR (1968). The demographic bomb. New York: Ballantine. Ford, D., Steward, J.R., & Bacus, J. (2013). Millennial madness! Y2K? : A content analysis of catastrophic themes in selected print media. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 31(1), 89-98.Gardner, D. (2011). Future Babble: Why experts are hedgehogs and foxes who know best. Penguin. Shermer, M. (2011). The end is always near. New Scientist, 210(2815), 30-31. Weber, EU and Stern, PC (2011). Public understanding of climate change in the United States. American Psychologist,66(4), 315-328. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0023253