I think it's a mix of groupthink and "someone else's problem". It's hard to break through an echo chamber and it's hard to accept something that inconveniences

I think it's a mix of groupthink and "someone else's problem". It's hard to break through an echo chamber and it's hard to accept something that inconveniences you. (I would assume the parts of the world where most of HN's audience resides are not going to be impacted by climate change as soon and as hard as many others.) I do believe HN is full of intelligent and compassionate people. Perhaps it's compassion fatigue? (Too many horrible things happening, can I even make a difference through my individual actions?) Maybe we just needed you to make a good analogy, to illustrate the problem?