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https://mander.xyz/post/3196712 - Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half - Nature Communications
false social reality brought to you by The Merchants of Doubt (aka fossil fuel industry pr firm).
Same people that did tobacco lobbying to boot!
I'm well aware that most people want shit to change and are willing to take the steps to do it.
None of that fucking matters until we force corporations go change
Well, most people seem to be willing to take the steps to change things except for voting, paying extra taxes, supporting anyone who'll do anything to hold corporations accountable, paying extra for anything sustainable or generally making any sort of personal compromises at all.
We need way stricter laws and enough participant countries, and I'm sure it will happen. Things have already been accelerating these last 20 years, and it's taken dried out rivers in Europe and a high frequency of devastating hurricanes and wildfires in America and Australia to get things started. It will require even worse summers that drag out and eliminate spring and autumn for humanity to really be dead serious, but it will happen.
The issue is it'll already be too late by then
Sure, we may prevent the absolute worst case apocalypse scenario, but there will already be billions suffering horribly by the time it gets to that point
This, just change "force corporations go change" to "abolish capitalism entirely"
I suppose you could go that route to reassure. I'm reading this as in "It only seems like most people don't care about the climate".
You'd probably need to follow up with the numbers in regards to public support of a policy, how our elected officials address those desires of the constituency, and then corresponding policy changes.
And then, you can play some Carsie Blanton for them.