We are facing our own possible extinction, yet coolly doing little about it

Flash floods after a heavy downpour hit eight areas in Petaling Jaya in March 2022, including here in section 51, on March 8. A new climate change report said it's 'code red for humanity', that the situation worse than previously believed: Many, many more extreme heatwaves, droughts, floods and so on, are to come. And yet nobody seems worked up about it. -- LOW LAY PHON/The Star

Overnight, we now have an army of local experts on Russian-Ukrainian relations. On social media, these keyboard warriors aggressively fire off their viewpoints. Some rage that the West and Nato (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) have fomented this crisis that began with Russians forces moving into Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022. Or they pontificate with authority about Ukrainian history.

So much heated opinion for an issue not directly affecting us (yet). I wonder how many followed this issue previously – maybe they just Googled their knowledge last week!