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Plenty of Americans can see and feel the effects of global warming, they just don't think addressing it is worth the effort.

• username223 1y ago
  Do they? Wildfires are some percent more likely and larger, but forests have always burned, and there are other factors like a century of fire suppression. Hurricanes are more violent and frequent, but there have always been hurricanes. Eggheads will tell you those things, but your day-to-day experiences of them are easy to dismiss. Watching a glacier die is visceral: https://maevethornberry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Mer-de-Glace-1.jpg https://maevethornberry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Mer-de... https://drdirtbag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/athabasca36.jpg https://drdirtbag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/athabasca36...
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  • carefulfungi 1y ago
    Most polls find that a substantial majority of Americans acknowledge climate change is real. However, whether it should be acted on with urgency polls differently by party affliation and by geographical region. Many climate change deniers I know have moved from "it isn't real" to "so what?" Or, perhaps more charitably, to "addressing climate change is not in the national interest." I don't think people who want to drill in national parks, privatize and raze old growth preserves, or exhaust fisheries without limits are going to be moved by seeing glaciers melt. They fundamentally have different values and place other interests over preservation and conservation.
    • robmsmt 1y ago
      Tragically common. A tragedy of the commons if you will.
• Hikikomori 1y ago
  Most Americans can see the effect but are unable to correlate it. The don't understand science. Most of them believe in a magical fairy in the sky.