[lewurm]

My pessimism tends to agree with you.

OTOH social distancing and wearing masks has shown recently that (most) people are fine with changing their behavior, if necessary.

[st1x7]

The parameters matter a lot though. With social distancing/mask wearing there is a very measurable risk that's immediate to you and the people around you. With climate change your actions make a tiny tiny impact that's spread disproportionately over the entire planet and takes effect over decades - this makes it much easier to ignore.

If people could get infected with climate-change disease and x% of them die, there would be a lot more action to prevent it.