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I don't own a car. I also think climate change is similar to fighting obesity: "you must change your behavior today or something will kill you in x years" Usually people have a wake up call(cardiac event, can't run up stairs without being winded, etc), before they get really serious about weight loss. What would be a similar wake up call for the planet? People don't attribute floods and stuff to climate change, so therefore it's not a wake up call.

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One could also argue that it's not just a problem of act, but also method. If you do not fit in the "mainstream" way to act, even if you reach the goal, you're gonna provoke the ire of the "righteous" ones. Health wise, if you lose weight going, say, on a full carnivore diet, you're still gonna have specist and environmentalist on your back.

I'd wager that most people's wake up call would be weather that's more extreme than climate change will likely produce. I imagine climate change to be worrying when plants don't grow around me and that probably will never happen, some just plants will recede into colder ranges and plants from warmer ranges will come in.

If you live in the right place that is. There are countries worrying about completely disappearing (due to raising sea levels) right now.

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