Why some still "DENY" and others "FAIL TO ACT"?
Most of the time the answer to that question is DISINFORMATION .... Intentional Manipulation.
You can learn more true facts from Chomsky in this 17 minutes lecture outtake:
To Really Solve Climate Change ~ You Really Must Change the System!
Because it changes nothing when nothing changes!
Noam Chomsky in 2014 @15:15 mins speaks regarding Right Wing Ayn Randism, Libertarianism, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Corporatism, the Dysfunctional Politics and failing Democracy across the West
"There's a major attack on Democracy, all the way through. But now it's reached the point, which is pretty remarkable. If you look at one of the main topics in mainstream Political Science it is comparing Public Attitudes with Public Policy.
It's a fairly straightforward effort to do this work. We have the Public Policies so we can see it. There is extensive Polling, quite reliable and consistent in it's results. It gives you a sense of what Public Attitudes are. The results of this work are published in the major books, articles, academic papers etc. the results are very straightforward.
About 70% of the Population, the lowest 70% on the wealth/income scale are literally disenfranchised. Their opinions have no effect on Policy. Their elected Representatives don't pay any attention to them. It's one of the reasons many of them don't bother Voting. They're not going to pay any attention to them anyway.
As you move up the Income Scale you get to have a little more influence on Policy. When you get to the Top - and contrary to the Occupy Movement it's not 1% it's more like one-tenth of 1% (0.1%) - when you get to the top where the massive concentration of wealth is they basically set Policy.
That's not Democracy that's Plutocracy. And that's what we have accepted.
But the good thing about it is it is changeable. It's not controlled by force. We are very free in that respect. Thanks to victories over the centuries. That leaves a lot of options and you'll have to make use of them."
My Comment:
It's all 'Connected' - Democracy or the lack thereof, politics, public policy, public attitudes and disengagement, wealth inequality, neoliberalism, the MIC, national Intel Services, regime change, Social Media and Mass media propaganda from think tanks, corporate shills, special interest groups (AIPAC) and the main political parties --
is all directly connected with the causes of global warming and the entrenched climate change inaction by Governments everywhere (except in China.)
Fact is Public Opinion and Public Priorities and the topics that are up there for "discussions" on news media websites are being 'Controlled' by the grotesque MSM manipulations.
The Think Tanks feeding in the
"acceptable public opinion" into the national consciousness via their "cable news agents" and default Biased reporting via the mouthpieces in the News Media and Social Media that are conveying 24/7 the false Rhetoric of Corporatists and Politicians in every nation today.
Meanwhile people of good will keep going on about making personal changes (stop eating meat, it'll save the world) and of technological strides forward (EVs Solar Batteries) to tackle GHG emissions and Climate Change. While every week, month and year those very same GHG emissions keep going up up up and the temperature keeps going up up up.
To me this really ends up being a kind of
Climate Change Derangement Syndrome. Add it to the list of other current 'derangement syndromes' that seem rife these days.
Trump pulls the USA out of the Paris Agreement and all we hear from Americans is barely a little whimper. Like, what's with that? Where is the weekly multi-million people marches demanding the opposite? Why is it not "Item #1 for the new Democrat House Majority and Speaker Pelosi?
Can we really not see what is happening right in front of your eyes in the USA and everywhere else or do we consciously choose to just deny it? Is it just too unsavory or too depressing to recognize and accept this reality as it is?
The question is not "What are people thinking?" when the obvious state of affairs is that they are not thinking! Blind to the bleeding obvious about their own powerlessness, captured by the 24/7 spin across the media, coupled with a DENIAL of the OBVIOUS lack of genuine real substantial action to tackle this existential crisis unfolding before our very eyes.
Greta Thunberg a very young teen gets the seriousness of the situation and the obvious inaction