They don’t. If people actually believed this stuff they’d be learning how to hunt, get good with long guns, filter their own water etc. Revealed preferences always smash headlong into one’s imagination.

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amazingman a day ago | parent [-]

Underneath your sneering is a failure to understand how humans tend to act.

	▲	remarkEon 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t follow. If I believed the global climate was going to collapse imminently (it’s not) I would have a very specific to do list and would be spending every hour of my free time preparing for this event. Is your point that people performatively engage in catastrophizing? In which case, I agree.