The news that the rate of ice melting in Antarctica has tripled since 2012, made me recall the big and possibly fatal flaw in the discourse of climate change: It can't tell a story that ends with, "I told you so."

Preppers have this exact ending always in mind, which is why there's a whole industry that makes and sells products for the fulfillment of their vivid fantasies. You can buy, at a warehouse or online, military-grade meals that are ready to eat (MREs): Mexican style rice and chicken, turkey tetrazzini, cheese tortellini in marinara sauce. No matter how tough your apocalypse is, always make sure it's delicious.

Or you can buy a one-year survival kit ($2,449.95), and survival tools such as a rescue ax, or military-style shovel. For the security of your stored food and equipment, you must, of course, have personal alarms, communication radios, binoculars, guns, stun guns, and ammo.

You might laugh at the person buying all of this seemingly unnecessary stuff. But then the economy finally collapses, and the world is thrown into confusion, and the cities are burning. And you and your unprepared family are walking through the woods looking for food. You might come across a bunker and try to enter it to get your desperate hands on the life-saving supplies. But the bolted metal door will not give. Then a man appears from behind a tree. He wears a camouflage jacket and pants. He is pointing an AR-15 at you and your family. And this is the moment he has long been waiting for. He says: "I told you so! Now, get!"

Climate change does not have an ending of comparable fantastical power. Why? Because no one with half a brain wants to imagine a world where one says: "I told you so." There for sure will be no satisfaction to exact from such a moment in such a world. All of us will go under with the climate deniers.