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Elections are every roughly every half decade in most of the world, right? I think the leaders know that we won't panic about our climate changing over that time span. What do we call the climate change equivalent of an Overton window?

I posit that the Overton Window is increasingly less relevant in highly polarized political environments.

Taking climate change as an example, a large fraction of the population in some countries is growing more skeptical of aggressive climate change policy, not less. Thats not going to shift policy acceptability even if the public's opinion shifts the opposite direction on average.

In most of the world we are the leaders.

That's not true, it just takes a lot of time and money.

We are in power. What are you doing?