Us Skeptics wonder that, too. Why don’t those card carrying members of the Cult of Climastrology do more in their own lives to comport with their Beliefs? Why do so few give up their fossil fueled vehicles, move into tiny homes/apartments, give up meat, send lots of their money to the official tax collecting agency of each country?
Why are people not doing more about climate change?
I drive a diesel car, eat meat and just a few months ago had a gas boiler installed in my house, that’s quite an admission for an environment correspondent who reports on climate change.
Climahypocrite. Don’t forget, the grand high poobahs are coming after diesel now, after saying it was better than regular gas.
The problem is that greener options are financially out of reach for me and – it seems – most Scots.
That is something I have been investigating for BBC Scotland’s Disclosure.
We commissioned a survey of 1,009 Scots, conducted by Savanta ComRes, which suggests price is putting many people off making greener lifestyle choices.
Price? Ya think? This is the next thing in the article
Price, eh? We all know that EVs are expensive. I can get a Touring Accord hybrid or CRV hybrid, the top end, for less than the least expensive Tesla with a fast charger installed. Which will give me more range, and takes all of 5 minutes to fill up and be on my way, since range is the second concern. Much more convenient, which is the 3rd concern.
Price was a factor too when it came to switching from gas and oil home heating to greener alternatives such as heat pumps. In that question, 64% of those who had considered the switch said the cost had put them off.
Confused by options was #2, with concerns over heating performance just barely #3. Four is inconvenient. Replacing your gas furnace, stove, or hot water heater (only my heat is gas, which is weird the way they built these townhomes) is not cheap.
Both these changes and many others will be necessary over the next 25 years if Scotland is to meet its targets for reducing emissions.
But Dr Sarah Ivory from the University of Edinburgh, who has studied climate-related behaviour change, believes it will difficult to bring them about.
She says: “We’re all a little bit sick of hearing about how bad it is, hearing that something needs to happen and really not knowing how to act.
“We have people say, ‘why should we change now?’. I think the answer to that is, if we don’t change now, we really are on a pathway to some catastrophic changes in our climate.”
Yet, the big wigs in the cult aren’t doing this themselves. Why should we? Are they giving up meat, which is demonized later in the piece? Nope.
But our poll suggests only 32% of people have been influenced by the protests to make lifestyle changes for the benefit of the planet.
Switching out your lightbulbs really doesn’t count.
And 29% believe the actions of individuals have only a minor impact, or no impact at all, on tackling the issue.
If so many believe individual actions are important, why are the Warmists not doing it in their own lives? Oh, right, because they want to force Other People to do so.
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