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I'll speak for the voices I hear around me because I hear this all the time in my conservative area:
Climate has demonstrably always been changing Our region has been cooler than average for all of the 2000s People don't trust when the solution is always "give us more money and power"
curious about how exactly is advocating for climate change awareness asking for more money and power?
That's easy: because the side advocating about climate change wants to come into your home and ban your gas stove, your gas water heater, your gas yard equipment, and your vehicles and replace them with "less efficient" versions. There is a ton of "pay more for less" FUD, and just enough of that FUD is or was true for that crowd to see it as a money/power grab.
The side against it is then amplifying all of that while blaming higher prices on the killing of coal and gas while spouting laissez faire freedom propaganda.
The global warming doesn't exist side believes it is a grift the same way everyone outside the MAGA bubble believes the Alt Right influencer/commentator shit is a grift, or the Flat Earth movement is a grift. There are enough grifters and true believers in any system that can be cherry picked to reinforce any individual's viewpoint.
I have stopped describing climate change denial as a side, since it is not a side, but rather a misunderstanding.
Ok, what should those raising alarm about climate change do instead? Keeping quiet is unconscionable. We all share the same world and we can see all indications of ecological and climate collapse around us? How can one deal with an emergency? Speaking softly has fallen on deaf ears.
Gas is relatively cheaper because of subsidies, moneyed interests who make profit from said subsidies and government grants for oil drilling, and military actions abroad for oil. The actively hostile reception of sustainable sources is not helping either.
People want to blame those advocating for a better future. They don't realize their present wellbeing is borrowed by people who want to preserve the status quo by inflicting massive damage to other societies and the environment to a large extent.
Generally speaking, that is often not the reality of it, but that is the perception that conservatives have.
Right wing propaganda media has been projecting the greed and desire for totalitarian control onto their opposition for decades.
Yeah that's the point behind my question. I am surprised at the downvotes.