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[โ€“] polonius-rex@kbin.run -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

people are aware of it in the sense that it's a thing that vaguely exists on the horizon

if society doesn't want to be melted by climate change, that demonstrably isn't going to be enough to stop it

[โ€“] Carrolade@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I'm not so sure. That was probably true before the past decade of record breaking heat waves, intensifying storms, etc.

Now it's a variety of other problems, from not giving a fuck and hoping god raptures them before then, to having other priorities like the economy and thinking technical solutions will fix it, to not believing it's human-caused, etc. It's political hurdles now, convincing people of the importance of helpful measures, as opposed to simply trying to remind them of the problem.