this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2026
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When given the option the population chooses consume more every single time. When you ask voters if Climate change matters a super majority says it does but when they rank it alongside other issues its at the bottom of the list, with things that will pollute more higher in the list. Politicians are reading that signal correctly, consume the planet because all the caring is purely performative. When it comes to protests to try and change the situation most people find themselves wanting the disruption to end, and thus join the polluters side. They don't actually care and their own behaviour shows that they don't. Humanity doesn't have a future, we are going to shoot on through to the worst case scenario and extinction.