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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
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I really don't think they are given the alarming number of people who support parties that actively work against climate action. If people were appropriately worried about climate change anything but a robust, clear and effective climate policy would be a political death sentence.
it’s not that people aren’t worried, it’s that they have immediate concerns (many of which are manufactured by conservative parties) and humans are remarkably short-term thinkers