> There's also the factor that people are more comfortable with changes that inconvenience others, but don't inconvenience them much Religious-like penance and

> There's also the factor that people are more comfortable with changes that inconvenience others, but don't inconvenience them much Religious-like penance and "I can't do anything about climate change, but you should" are polar opposites, though, so if you think that's a major factor you're arguing against the OP. The point of religious penance is that it is very, very inconvenient to me (not others) while solving nothing. Refusing to buy fruit that is out of season because you worry about the CO2 from transportation is perhaps a good example, because it can be a major inconvenience but shipping is so efficient that it's not clear that it would have much of an effect. The point of token adherence and kicking the can down the road is that it's all someone else's problem, as for example when people argue that gas furnaces (not stoves) or inefficient air conditioning should be illegal, which is fine by them because they have the money to buy a state-of-the-art system anyway and if it's too expensive for other people, that's their problem. Or, as in this story about the Farmers' protest party, stuff that inconveniences farmers but not them, though that's a very complex case.