The hardest thing about climate change is the fact that people don’t really care much about it.  They do profess to care about it — in most countries, including Ireland, they rate it as a very serious problem. But they don’t care much about in the sense that they’re not willing to forego much in order to fix it. Poll after poll in country after country finds the same thing. In Ireland, according to a 2021 IPSOS/MRBI poll for The Irish Times, 82 per cent are opposed to higher taxes on energy and fuel, 69 per cent are opposed to higher…

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