I think it’s the “climate change/global warming” crowd that appeals to the toddler’s limited conception of time and space. You will notice I did not say that they have the child’s limited conception themselves, because I think they know damn well that it’s a hoax.
Anyway, the person with the child’s limited conception of time will not think in terms of the following:
1. The Interglacial Period, the period 70,000 years ago when an ice sheet a mile thick covered much of North America and Europe;
2. The Medieval Warm Period, from about 900-1250 AD, when the world was considerably warmer than it is now Vikings raised cattle in Greenland, and grapes grew in Scotland, all things that cannot happen now because it’s too cold,
3. Or finally, more recently, the hot, dry summers in the 1930s and the 1950’s, or the bitterly cold winters of the 1940s and especially the 1970s, when major (liberal) publications like Time, Newsweek and National Geographic stirred fear of “the coming ice age.” Which, of course, was going to be caused by man’s pollution of the environment.