Because no one thinks their house will burn down or flood, or that they will starve.
We're supposed to be self-interested individuals, but sadly most people only seem to wake up the moment their own safety is directly threatened.
Such a shame that 50 years of climate warnings have done practically nothing to stop us reaching the tipping point. If we aren't there yet, we will be in our lifetimes no doubt.
"climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" - @PerthshireMags on ex-twitter
Most people that voted for Trump I’d say is not that they don’t think climate change will affect them, it’s that they don’t think there’s climate change at all, or even if it there is, it’s not caused by humans.
We're supposed to be self-interested individuals, but sadly most people only seem to wake up the moment their own safety is directly threatened.
Such a shame that 50 years of climate warnings have done practically nothing to stop us reaching the tipping point. If we aren't there yet, we will be in our lifetimes no doubt.