The reality is that there are so many problems related to climate change that talking about bears is literally the tip of the iceberg. Not important anymore. People don’t care. Insect populations are down 60% which is catastrophic and yet I don’t see it in any news.
Yep, rather wild how we went from “we should be stopping climate change, but it won’t really affect us for the next few decades” to whole countries burning, being flooded etc. in just a few years.
And yet there are still politicians arguing that it isn’t real or it isn’t man made and we should actually be helping the fossil fuel industry.
Recently, I’ve also seen a couple of prominent climate scientists who keep playing right into the usual media trope of softening the blow so people aren’t “overwhelmed.” Seems to me, though, most people treat climate change like the news about aliens.
No one I know objects to the reality, but it’s just not something they feel they can do anything about when no one is meeting them halfway, so everything that would help isn’t so expensive, time-consuming, and/or labour intensive.
Along with housing, inflation, etc., this is a topic that needs popular outrage and heavy political pressure on Western gov’ts to stop shielding the industries and individuals most responsible.
