Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nosleeptill 2484 days ago
People don't support the concept of taxes even when they can directly see the positive impact the tax payment has on their own lives and on the community.

Addressing climate change is an abstract concept and for most people, like 80% of the population they can't grasp the abstract, so it all feels like a scam, one big flea circus. "No, no, the fleas are there you just can't see them, just trust me."

Unless someone can invent a way to capture and sequester greenhouse gases from the upper atmosphere to the tune of 50.9 gigatonnes per year I really don't see humanity making any progress, slowing growth isn't helping.