The methodology of arriving st the conclusion in the title is flawed. Polling people "would you want to pay the government extra money to fight climate change"

The methodology of arriving st the conclusion in the title is flawed. Polling people "would you want to pay the government extra money to fight climate change" tells you a more nuanced story than "people won't put their money where their mouth is." Americans in particular, and people in general, don't trust their government to mediate solutions to problems. If you gave a more concrete solution rather than just "we are gonna effectively raise your taxes and do what we say with the money, efficiently and effectively, promise" I'm sure you'd get a lot more support. But people that pay into social security and then watch that fund get plundered and be on the verge of bankruptcy, asking those people if they'd give the government money so they can manage a fund directed solely at solving a problem and then being surprised when the answer is "no," to attribute that to not actually caring and only paying lip service to the problem is quite a leap.