I generally agree with you, and I think the biggest tell has been response to remote work. I live in a suburb, largely for cost reasons, and commuting into work

I generally agree with you, and I think the biggest tell has been response to remote work. I live in a suburb, largely for cost reasons, and commuting into work involved driving 15 miles one way. The round trip, 5 days a week, meant I was driving 150+ miles per week. I’ve been 100% remote since the beginning of the pandemic, and now I drive less than 5 miles per week, for groceries and all other trips combined. While I understand this situation won’t be universally applicable, the same holds true for a large chunk of the population, including many of my family, friends, and coworkers. This should be seen as an unmitigated climate success, and we should be pushing remote work wherever possible from a climate perspective. But many of the same news publications and individuals supposedly so concerned about the climate have lamented how remote work will cause the decline and eventual death of our large cities. Nevermind that many smaller to medium cities could potentially thrive in more self-sustaining ways. Because it’s ultimately about a particular lifestyle they prefer, and anything reasoning regarding the climate, the economy, culture, politics, or society at large that can be twisted to support their preferred lifestyle will, and will be jettisoned as soon as it doesn’t. The same holds true, in my personal experience, with many of those claiming to go child-free for the sake of the climate. Most of my acquaintances who fall into my basket have clearly been uninterested in having children for a long time and have only recently latched onto the idea that they are doing it for the good of society. The reverse seems to hold true as well: I’ve noticed what seems to be an increase in the number of people claiming our moral obligation to have children for the sake of society stability and growth. Let me be clear, I don’t believe that living in or out of a city, or having or not having children are “better”. I am just alarmed by how many seem completely unwilling to accept others may make different life choices than them. People are not content to live their life as they please. They must actually be martyrs and better than you for doing so. I can’t tell if this is an artifact of the age we live in, or it’s always been this way and I’m only become more aware of it as I’ve grown older.