Paul Marangelo: Climate change, football share uncomfortable truths

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Paul Marangelo, who is a conservation ecologist for The Nature Conservancy in Vermont.
Humanity is facing unambiguously daunting challenges as it attempts to meaningfully address climate change. Just recognizing the scale and nature of the problem is equally difficult. Writers have often served up reassuring anecdotes that illustrate how society can rise up and overcome unprecedented crises; mobilizing to win World War II and the successful Apollo progr