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Largely anecdotal but my experience is the people I know that were soundly in the "climate change isn't real and it's just a hoax" camp are now pretty much all in the "okay it's probably real but just a natural thing that happens to the earth. Happened before and will happen again. It has nothing to do with us." So it makes sense that a person with that mindset would ignore the problem or even acknowledge it straight on but refuse to actually do anything about it.
Still baffling tho...
"Alright fine, my house is burning down around me, but it wasn't arson, it's just an electrical fire! I'm just gonna hang out on the sofa and watch Fox."