I worry this will cause public opinion to go "see, regardless what we do, it doesn't help, so it's not us and it's going to shit anyway so let's just keep doing

I worry this will cause public opinion to go "see, regardless what we do, it doesn't help, so it's not us and it's going to shit anyway so let's just keep doing as usual" and then things go super wrong. I mean, when people are presidential candidates and climate change skeptics...?