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Amazed it’s that low. As a group, wealthy people (in the global sense — i.e. anyone reading this) aren’t inconvenienced enough by climate change yet. So there’
by paulcole 2y ago
Amazed it’s that low.
As a group, wealthy people (in the global sense — i.e. anyone reading this) aren’t inconvenienced enough by climate change yet. So there’s a 0% chance that they’ll supports any climate policy that negatively impacts their quality of life in any way.
But they also don’t want to feel like Part of the Problem, so they’ll enthusiastically support do-nothing policy.
- roenxi 2y agoEven if we were affected we wouldn't support policy that negatively impacts our quality of life. The point of policy is to improve QoL.
- paulcole 2y agoYes, exactly. People won’t trade their QoL today for a better future for the planet. At some point that will have to be done by force rather than choice. So yes, you’d better hope the magic policy that both A) Works and B) improves QOL today is found. Although to be honest, this point won’t come until everyone alive today is probably long dead so it doesn’t matter that much.
- mistrial9 2y ago> So there’s a 0% chance that they’ll supports any climate policy /me reviews dozens of serious mass actions, hundreds of long form publications, and legislation in California and elsewhere.. wondering how this fits with "zero percent" of anything.. can we regroup and rephrase a bit here?
- paulcole 2y agoNo need to rephrase! You can simply continue moving your eyes left to right to find additional words!
- totetsu 2y agoI know someone who was a post-doc researcher in climate policy. a seeming sorely needed are of expertise. But a large enough group of the population just wanted to cry, the government is too big, and we don't want to waste money on policy analysts so there has been no opportunity to actually do anything.