Any solution involves, however you disguise it, a tax, or a decline in disposable income, whether it's called a fee, a charge, or a lowering of buying power.
Almost nobody likes change that affects them. We're creatures of habit, dependent on a stable world. "Disruptive" firms are okay, so long as they disrupt somebody else.
In addition to these considerations, climate change deniers push the following arguments, even if they have been disproven:
Power Grab by the "nerds"?
The people who worry about climate change include many of the nerds you despised or at least ignored in high school and college. Why listen to them now? "Scientists are good "on tap but not on top," right? When they invent stuff we can make a buck on, okay; but not when they would cost us money or cause disruption of our routines.
When other arguments fail, critics of science say that scientists are just trying to scare us and get grants or that all the talk about climate change is a power grab by socialists who allegedly can't win an honest debate about our way of life.
Survival is Said to be an Individual Challenge
Through wealth it seems possible to protect oneself even if the scientific predictions turn out to be true. New Zealand beckons, or other survivalist havens. Store food, buy guns!
Out of sight
Greenhouse gases are invisible, and despite a few documentary film s, the melting of ice occurs in regions seen by only a few people, the Arctic (North Pole), Antarctica (South), and glaciers in the mountains (the Andes, for example, or the Himalayas).
Well, because of these factors and others we don't want to accept that we have to do much about climate change or the emission of greenhouse gases. These are some of the factors that make this issue unusual. Can we turn our brilliant human ingenuity to get around these factors? Otherwise, they are likely to prevail. Evolution has not equipped us to deal with this particular danger.
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