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by freddie_mercury 849 days ago
This isn't quite true.

Polls consistently show that people think someone somewhere should do something as long as it doesn't actually cost them any money.

"IPSOS found that just 25 percent of Americans said they’d be willing to pay higher taxes to address climate change. A 2019 Reuters poll asked specifically whether respondents would pay $100 to fight climate change and only a third said yes"