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Support may have halved, but I can think of several possible reasons.
Maybe people decided it's a lost cause, we're on the sinking ship, and why not enjoy it while it lasts.
Maybe people realized that they would actually have to take moderate cuts, instead of just talking, doing little, and continuing as always (electing conservatives and neoliberals).
Maybe people fell for "Bild-Zeitung"'s campaigns ("a fraction of heating systems need to be changed out, with government financial assistance, by the year 2044" being portrayed as basically "the Green minister wants to forbid you from heating your home, starting next year").
Maybe support wasn't that sincere if it collapses that easily.
Maybe the last 3 years are not that different from the last 30 years. The rhetoric "please please think of how your children will live" in the last 30 years has impressed about 1 in 5 persons, but not more. 4 out of 5 just don't care.
Maybe the surveys only got support because they presented the issue as "you won't have to do or pay anything or have any inconvenience".
Etc.