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That's kind of the point. Stop thinking about "most people". Do it for yourself. If you believe in the climate emergency that is. You might be pleasantly surprised to see your friends around you follow the suit.
I can’t even get my friends and coworkers to vote.
If you think about it, this hypothesis holds conceptual water. Head counts in the thousands are the region of sample size where statistics begin to aggregate into commoditized data and spherical cows. Thus, perpetuating the premise of democracy past small town population sizes really only serves as a useful plane of misdirection for social control. No one can realistically be held accountable for democratic blunders that cross large geographies or involve huge voter turnouts. It's essentially fantasy to buy into the narrative.
All you need to do is watch 12 Angry Men to catch a glimpse of how and why voting, even with small numbers in extreme microcosms, is really unreliable.
And at larger scales, just statistics with manipulated noise. Statistics are simply representative of accidental distributions of facts, monte carlo style. It's certainly blameless, but not well reasoned agency.
I'm not saying this to be a cool, edgy pessimist. I'm thinking about everything I've seen happen with my own eyes, plus historical realities.
We've avoided world wars since the 1940's like a slug avoids salt. This is not because of governance and democracy, but rather institutional memory. As a meta-organism, we remember the lethal burn of it. It will probably come to the same climactic realization with the biosphere, before this amoeboid sprawl of people recoils in anguish at the experience of disfiguring injury.