I think you're right. Most people are reactive rather than proactive. In the case of long-term existential threats like climate change, this isn't an option and requires top-down, unpopular mandates that only get necessarily more draconian as the hole gets dug deeper.
Hyper individualists who don't care about anything outside their lifestyle vs. collective community participants for sustainability; easily pigeonholed with pejoratives like conspiracy nuts/deplorables vs. socialists/communists/antifa.
The related issue of power structures excessively dominated by the hubris of the rent seekers refusing to change because of self-serving greed: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK They're asking for it, and will only placate with crumbs, but will never cede power without a fight.
Hyper individualists who don't care about anything outside their lifestyle vs. collective community participants for sustainability; easily pigeonholed with pejoratives like conspiracy nuts/deplorables vs. socialists/communists/antifa.
The related issue of power structures excessively dominated by the hubris of the rent seekers refusing to change because of self-serving greed: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK They're asking for it, and will only placate with crumbs, but will never cede power without a fight.
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