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Some religious people go to church everyday and others go knocking door to door to evangelize. Notice how some Christians also believe the world is ending?
To answer your question, the Mongers of Climate Change have people of various convictions. Some people risk their lives shutting down highways, others just buy a different car.
You might think it weird to relate these two concepts together but human belief determines human action.
When a drought occurs, some cultures perform rain dances, others try to curtail economic activity. There have been droughts, there will be droughts. It's not like water is a worldly finite resource. Water has migration patterns too.
At this point in Human history, famine, in general, is a political decision. If I am not mistaken, the farmers in Netherland are no longer able to grow food. Why?
To answer your question, the Mongers of Climate Change have people of various convictions. Some people risk their lives shutting down highways, others just buy a different car.
You might think it weird to relate these two concepts together but human belief determines human action.
When a drought occurs, some cultures perform rain dances, others try to curtail economic activity. There have been droughts, there will be droughts. It's not like water is a worldly finite resource. Water has migration patterns too.
At this point in Human history, famine, in general, is a political decision. If I am not mistaken, the farmers in Netherland are no longer able to grow food. Why?
Because most people don't care—especially in the United States, but also in many other countries.
Because it is this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
A big country like the US or China is responsible for less than 20% of emissions. Either one of those countries could invest in alternatives and sacrifice greatly and it wouldn't solve the problem.
Because all countries would have to pull together there is this curious phenomenon of delinquency taking different forms. Under Donald Trump the US was contemptuous about taking any action at all. That lets Germany look like "the good guy" when it turns off its nuclear power plants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
A big country like the US or China is responsible for less than 20% of emissions. Either one of those countries could invest in alternatives and sacrifice greatly and it wouldn't solve the problem.
Because all countries would have to pull together there is this curious phenomenon of delinquency taking different forms. Under Donald Trump the US was contemptuous about taking any action at all. That lets Germany look like "the good guy" when it turns off its nuclear power plants.
One nation above all others is resistant to worldwide government regulation. And one political party opposes regulation and downplays the impact of climate change in their platform.
The most effective and important thing you can do is elect progressives at every level of government in your country. In the U.S., this means supporting the Democratic party.