Sad but predicted. It looks like the crunch is between those who want to keep the current economy going and those who want to stop it and allow some kind of emergence. The first, treating climate is something where solutions are assumed to exist that can be bought. Most people are quietly holding on to protect what they have while many are looking in the collapse for opportunities. This is a much more active process in which few are seeking regeneration along new lines while many are seeking fire sale shifts in asset prices. or access to subsidized and hence protected business deals. The general idea that most people have is that the population is passive under the threat of climate change. Hard to blame people because long-term projects are few and seem abstract and not adequate to the climate challenge. Many current efforts reaching back decades are to change either the supply of fossil fuel or the demand for it. But the supply and demand are part of a larger culture of fossil fuel-based total economy where everything is interconnected. It is clear that if we cut domestic heating people would have to radically change their lifestyles. But let’s take something tiny, like Christmas cards.
Google says 2 billion Christmas cards are sent in the US each year. Cut these (as part of no printing on paper) and the paper industry would be undermined, trucking, ink, gift stores, forestry jobs, printing The mind boggles, but it better not because we have to keep on thinking.