But, as another article looking at the same poll notes, “almost three-quarters of Republicans (72%) said the economy should be given priority, even at the risk of ignoring climate change. That is up 13 points since 2018 – despite the increases in climate-change-related weather disasters.”

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    What passes me off the most is we went from “climate change is not real” to “there’s nothing we can do to stop it” real quick. For fuck sake, what do we need to do to get someone to take this shit seriously enough to do something meaningful.

    And dont say voting, because while that may be the best thing to do it doesn’t do it quick enough.

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      Start organizing your community! Fight against minimum parking requirements and single family zoning, protest against expanding or creating roads for cars instead of people, organize to make utilities like electricity municipal, fight against plastic-bag-ban bans, pressure your local government to make the neighborhood walkable, overrun a coal plant to shut it down, lobby the city to ban the installation of gas lines in new homes, organize a climate protest in front of the mayor’s office, etc.

      It all starts locally and builds up from there. That’s how we see change, from the bottom to the top. A popular chant on picket lines is “I believe that we will win”. We will win. We have to win. And we don’t win unless we fight, because when we fight, we win.

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        overrun a coal plant to shut it down

        I love how you dropped this unfathomably based suggestion in a list of lame and ineffective ideas. I pick this one because it seems easier than dealing with the government.

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      get someone to take this shit seriously enough to do something meaningful

      Something meaningful might affect them, which is unacceptable, cuz this is 'Merica, which means they do what they want, fuck everyone else around them and even the entire planet!

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      I feel like the best course of action is only worth it to pursue if you don’t care about things like “having an intact national energy grid”.