Because the average household has gone insular given the financial problems of the day. Survival mode means you’re not looking globally but inside your own “house”.

You may not want to hear that, but it’s how most people, middle of the bell curve, function.

How am I going to pay rent? How am I getting to work to pay rent? How am I going to get healthy food for my kids? How many meals do I have to skip this week so my kids can have meals? How am I going to get gas money? How many holes can these socks and underwear endure before I have to buy new ones? How long until the bandaid around the sharp edges one the safety pin holding my bra together fails?

Shit like that is dominating people’s minds? Climate? Might as well be asking about space aliens and stardust. The processing power isn’t there right now. Again, it may not be ideal to you, but, middle of the bell curve, that’s how people function.

As such, answers to the daily survival questions are coming first.

Yes, it’s all moot if the planet dies, but timeline wise most people aren’t going be able to look that far ahead of their kid is crying out of hunger right now or they’re stranded unable to get transport to work, today. They want today solved, not next year.

It’s like saying, why didn’t you get to the hospital to perform that life saving surgery when the surgeon is busy watching her shoes burn and trying to figure out how to get them off before they become one with her skin. Both things need doing, but what is closest to an individual is what that individual will be focused on. Burning footwear > surgery located elsewhere, never mind how important both things are.

Because the conversation has been shifted towards how average people are just worried about how they are going to survive with the little bit of money and wealth they have access to in the next ten years.

Average people aren't thinking about the survival of the species in the next hundred years ... they're thinking about their own personal survival in the next ten years.

Why would they?

Just because it's not a campaign issue, doesn't mean they don't think it needs fixed.

There's just only so much attention people have, so you campaign on what's most likely to get you elected

I swear a shit ton of "journalists" have to be intentionally misunderstanding all of this just for outrage clicks. There's no other logical explanations for even shitty blog writers to not understand it by now.

Edit:

This one isn't even a blog...

It's a podcast transcript lmao

Why isn’t Diet Coke against Coke

There's a man with a gun in our face and the house is on fire. Both are very serious problems, but one is slightly more immediate.

I was wondering what CUMATE was all about

The answer to this question, no matter the topic at hand, is always "because it doesn't serve their donors goals."

Don’t let perfect to be the enemy of good.

Vote for Democrats

Second time I've seen this type of question pop up. Feels like a marginally more sophisticated GOP tactic to try to trick an opponent into bringing it up and then flopping hard when they sound hella tone deaf and out of touch. Only an idiot candidate would make this one of their main running points.

Climate change mitigation is super important...Just not right now. Right now the goal is to just fucking win so the GOP and corporate demagogues can be reeled in. Remember, the GOP and techbro technofascists actually want end times to hurry up and happen so they can capitalize on the turmoil (they already have a billion mile head start) or meet Jesus and go to heaven or something. Idk, they're insane sociopaths with absolutely no tender sentiment toward anyone else. It's absolutely insane to me how many MAGA pieces of shit there are...makes me want to believe there's been some huge conspiracy to lace everything with lead to create a critical mass of brain damaged broken angry violent racists.

Because it would impact their friends and families profits. Kind of like prosecuting the creeps in the Epstein files.

Because the average American doesn't give a shit about the environment.

Because climate is actually the energy (AI) sector and billionaires, and We CaNt Do AnYtHiNg AbOuT tHoSe

Because they're talking about the issues the voters care about most.

But not to worry, you can think for yourself about which party is likely to be better on the climate. Is it the party that started building wind power projects? Or is it the party that actually paid money to cancel those projects?

Everyone knows why. If people can't afford food and houses, it doesn't matter what happens in ten years. You know this, I know this, it's basic reasoning. So don't waste our time trying to undercut voting efforts.

Sigh.

Aren't we passed the point of no return? People have probably accepted that we're all fucked.