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If the labor class wasn't losing a class war to the capital holders you'd see 10x the support for saving the planet. But right now cost of living is so bad that folks are easily susceptible to propaganda that divides the labor class, and environmentalism is just one of the issues they've chosen to use as a wedge issue.
It's obvious how "do you want the cost of gas to go up?" is an effective propaganda message. Or "Do you want your taxes to go up and be used to wash sad animals while your own kids go hungry and get no Christmas presents?"
That's the real kicker here, a huge number of folks are barely scraping by and the propaganda lies and tells them the only way we can have environmentalism is by them suffering more. They're already scared and desperate, sad animals is nothing compared to their own families suffering.
The reason it works so well is, again, class war.
The moment citizens began accepting the doctrine that climate change is a "consumer-led" problem, they lost. The pressure should have always, always been and remained on corporations, not consumers.
So instead of this, now they get away with asking questions like "We can help if you let us raise your essential service taxes, is that okay?"
It's so ingrained that no one even fathoms to check the "other" box in the survey and write "Actually, you're the only one whose taxes need to be raised in order to fix this. Let's do that instead, cut your funding by half while we're at it, and pass a bill outlawing lobbies for offshore drilling" instead of pearl-clutching about how environmentalist groups are forcing all their heating bills to rise.
They could literally snap their fingers and fix the problem, they have the means to do so and still keep every single yacht they own.
Or 10x the consumption because people want to eat more steaks and drive faster cars and travel farther with their bigger share of global resources.