Maybe people are just tired from the same old alarmism which is then used to introduce more and more limitations and never touches the biggest offenders. Sure, introduce the next tax, lovely. Hope Nestle doesn't get touched.
If everything is going to shit anyways, why throw resources into a black hole fixing it today? Check how many headlines have been saying inevitable, point of no return, etc etc for several decades.
Another aspect of this is overfitting on metrics like CO2 emissions, that's how you get hot garbage like carbon offsets that allow the worst offenders to keep operating like they have always been.
The reason nobody does anything about climate change is because it threatens their wealth, not because it's a catastrophe.
Maybe search on the web, who knows, it could turn out that you too live in the same world!
As an example, there's been some pretty deadly heatwave feuled by climate changed recently for example both in Sub-Saharan africa and south east asia and I'm sure nobody is really aware of it.
Turns out the "alarmist" as you call them were right all along and the current events are following pretty much the worst case scenarios.
Imagine there's a huge asteroid comes at Earth, but it will strike only in 100 years. Alarmists start screaming that we need to act NOW, but anti-alarmists would be like "oh come on, you're screaming it for the last 44 years, please stop".
People are pretty bad at solving long problems.
You can extend this 'what if I am right' argument to literally anything, making it vacuous.
The clincher here is that most of the greenhouse gasses come from giant corporations. As non-billionaire individuals, we don't have to personally give anything up. All we have to do is get those corporations to stop polluting simply because it's more profitable in the short term.
Agreed. Also happy to personally give up conveniences if it helps.
The distinction is between 'this bad thing should be fixed', and 'this double plus super duper bad thing is going to kill everyone'.
Why even bother if the second one correct?