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In the West, pollution has been getting better not worse. So it can't be an apocalyptic threat.
Climate change also can't be an apocalyptic threat on any reasonable timescale either (as seen in the IPCC reports) but it's easier to pretend that it is because it's a 'bad, getting worse' situation.
I don't think most people look at climate change narratives from first principles either, we've had 30 years of increasingly intense media indoctrination and prestige-class opinion-forming. It's all but locked in. Many people see Bjorn Lomberg and immediately think 'debunked/denier/paid-off/Newscorp shill'... They don't want to change their minds and so they can find some reason not to. I don't like changing my mind either. The Aztecs didn't doubt that you had to sacrifice humans on the altars, that's just what you do.
I keep coming back to this [folk theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_theorem_(game_theory), which points to a fucked up equilibrium where many/most Aztecs don't believe in human sacrifice, but believe they will be punished by others if they don't do it or punish others.
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