"I'm sure there's certainly a smidge of cynical cash-grabbing at play here," Terrence admits bitterly before softening again, "but I suspect some people simply don't know how else to react. It's so hard to even wrap one's mind around the concept of our imminent destruction. Treating it as something other than reality makes the events far more palatable."

He sighs before getting to his point, "We're not ignoring how terrible things are. It's a defense mechanism specifically because we can't ignore it."