[dmix]

I don’t even think that’s the primary problem. I think the average person doesn’t give a shit about stuff like this, at least not to the point where they have to make personal sacrifices.

It’s very very easy to live your daily life and not see any real world consequences outside of some sometimes shrill activists who aren’t the most persuasive people to the average lowest common denominator people.

For one thing these sorts of people won’t be hanging out on an MIT website called EN-ROADS.

Indifference is the biggest enemy, not some big orchestrated conspiracy (although there is some of that too, but that doesn’t explain why even most liberals aren’t doing anything about it).

[plutonorm]

They don't give a shit because the news they read, the entertainment they watch all tell them not to. The narrative has been set by private interests for decades - perhaps hundreds of years. So now these opinions look like they are coming from the grass roots.

[asdf21]

>They don't give a shit because the news they read, the entertainment they watch all tell them not to

No, they don't give a shit because they don't need to. It doesn't affect their daily lives.

[dmix]

I live in Canada where the media is constantly harping on climate change so I’m not convinced it’s that powerful.