Why do so many people ignore major threats like climate change?

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1. Because most people cant do shit. What good is recycling when it just gets taken to the same dump as the rest of the garbage anyways. Switching to a hybrid or an electric vehicle from My half ton isnt gonna stop the chinese factories that pump out a million tons of toxic fumes a week and so one and so forth. And dont even get me started on the lithium mines required for electric vehicles.

2. Because no one wants to upset the economy. They are too afraid of losing their stuff. And the wealthy want to keep it that way.

3. We were, are entertained. Distracted.

4. we live in cities, where most people are very disconnected from the nature. they don’t see the destruction, they hear about it sometimes, but caring about it doesn’t bring food to the table.

   Reforesting a crop land costs money and doesn’t bring money to the investors. investors rather chop every wood in the world and farm the most profitable crop instead. they just want a Lamborghini and such things, they have never been into the woods and actually hate it, it’s just boring trees and a lot of annoying bugs,,,right.

5. Frog boiling in water.

6. Uneducated ignorance. Those people will not believe experts.

   Just my guess.

7. The locust does not understand its eating its home. We are related

8. My sister absolutely will not discuss anything in regards to climate change. Pretty sure she’s terrified due to my mom’s gloom and doom Jesus rapture talk from when we were kids. She’s also rich and lazy as hell so that would disrupt her entire life.

9. I think most people either feel powerless to stop it or believe that we are powerless to stop it and it’s God’s will.

10. They don’t believe it’s real.

    Or

    They don’t want to believe it’s real.

    Or

    They think they’ll be able to avoid the consequences, either because they are rich or because they think they’ll be dead before it’s their problem.

11. The boiling frog analogy except the boiling doesn’t really kick into gear until the grandkids are born or later. People don’t care about anyone but themselves.

12. For most it’s a far-from-my-bed show – and worse, why-should-I-if-they-won’t. It’s a real ‘how to be a dodo 101’

13. Head meets subsurface sand

14. Alcoholism.

15. Corporate Greed

16. The ppl who aren’t ignoring the climate threat usually end up in jail when they try to do something about it. That’s a pretty good deterrent for most ppl, I think.

17. Because we’re in a society designed to take your money and force you into labor to get healthcare. Most people don’t ignore climate change, they just don’t see the evidence to prove the concern is a higher priority than getting basic human rights like healthcare and healthy food, two things that don’t come easy in the US.

18. 54% of American adults read below a sixth grade level

19. It seems insurmountable from an individual’s point of view, so governments have to step in. They react with glacial speed because it requires a complete overhaul of consumerism, which is how all companies survive.

20. Because all they care about are the costs of immediate needs. If prices go up they blame whomever is in power. This so unfortunate because they then ignore the bigger, but down the road, problems like climate change.

21. In all seriousness though without a change in our economic system there is nothing we can do. We all need a roof over our head, we all need a job to do so which is built off consumption. Transition from fossil fuels is a must but unless we go away from capatilsm then we still manufacture too much, extract too much, waste too much

22. Because we are individually powerless to make positive change & our leaders our owned by corporations

23. We don’t have global views on things. It’s always me, me, me. Our country, our economy, our war. Etc, etc. Most people do not realize there is a bigger picture. We, as a global community, we will NEVER be able to come together as one planet, one world. Hell, we can’t even stop discrimination of different races. We are one people living on one planet. We will self immolate our civilization at some point in the future. The planet will be fine.

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