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Humans are incredibly bad at envisioning things on a large scale, especially something as (relatively) gradual as climate change.
I have hope that enough people in government are/will be making meaningful inroads with regard to climate change, but I don't think the public will get it until Florida and Louisiana have sunk into the Gulf.
I don't think it's climate scientists' fault; I think it's incredibly difficult for average people to grasp the big picture, mixed with contrarians and oil industry lobbying/propaganda working against those efforts.
Not directly on a large scale, but average people vote for candidates, from the city council to whatever the highest office is, and they do.
If Average Person A doesn't grasp the imminent danger, they're not going to prioritize picking a candidate that has climate change policy as a platform issue.
If it didn't, there wouldn't be entire political parties trying to suppress people's ability to vote.
Voting absolutely matters.
Yeah, haha. Voting doesn't work. Also, ignore the entire Republican party.