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Crises have split European voters into five ‘tribes’, survey suggests
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Maybe that differs per culture, but here in the Netherlands I know plenty of right-wing voters who don't deny the issue at all. They acknowledge it's a problem, sometimes even want to put effort into fixing it. Their arguments against are usually "we're such a small country, so whatever we do won't really affect anything anyway" and "it's already going quite well, no need to be ahead of the curve". I'd say that's actually by far the largest group of right wing voters in my personal experience.
Now personally I don't agree with them of course. Yes we're a small country, but als relatively rich and relatively bad for the climate. Also, adding all small countries together still adds up to a big amount of emissions. If all small countries would reason like this nothing would happen. And we're not exactly ahead of the curve either, even though we're relatively rich.
We had more of that here in Germany maybe 10 years ago, the people wouldn't claim we are that small but the closely related argument that we are already doing more than the US and China and they are so much larger than us. Today there is more denial but also more of that "we are for everything that is against what the Greens want" attitude.
It is not just happening in the Netherlands, I can see it in Germany too and there is this study that found it all over Youtube. It is the same group and the same denial, just their agenda framed differently, because they could not win over people with right out denying climate change anymore. They just switched the narrative to "can't do anything against it" :
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/16/third-of-uk-teenagers-believe-climate-change-exaggerated-report-shows