Something I read in another comment on HN: "Climate denialists have gone in one smooth move from 'we'll fix it' to 'it's too late to do anything about it anyway'". Which unfortunately rings very true.
The really, really big problem is that people seem to think that they personally are going to be exempt from this, that it will happen to others, but not to them. Waking up from that will be pretty harsh. But if COVID denialism is any indication of how well humanity deals with complex problems on a planetary scale I'm not too optimistic about climate change countermeasures, the problem is much more complex and would require cooperation on a far more massive scale than anything COVID related.
The really, really big problem is that people seem to think that they personally are going to be exempt from this, that it will happen to others, but not to them. Waking up from that will be pretty harsh. But if COVID denialism is any indication of how well humanity deals with complex problems on a planetary scale I'm not too optimistic about climate change countermeasures, the problem is much more complex and would require cooperation on a far more massive scale than anything COVID related.