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CNN just had a report on that only 1% of ameriburgers care about the climate when voting. (hexbear.net)

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Can't find the source sadly it's not up on CNN's website yet with the reporting. Look at my elections dawg I ain't never escaping climate catastrophe.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

As a society, we ain't very good at the whole "delayed consequences" thing. The bad thing isn't happening (to me specifically) right now: therefore, I do not need to think about the bad thing/the bad thing is not real.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don’t think that’s the whole story though. The migrant “crisis” is animating a lot of voters despite migrants having little impact on the vast majority of people‘s lives. People tend to assign outsized risk to the unknown/unfamiliar and vice versa. Nothing is more comfortingly familiar to the typical Amerikkkan than their oversized house kept at 65 in the summer and 75 in the winter with three giant SUV’s in the driveway that they drive everywhere on clogged stroads.