Can you put a price on 350 million people giving up? . . . on a culture of complacency, resignation, lethargy, compliance?
One of the biggest effects I see is the cultural shift to accept living in a polluted world. People resign to accept it even though they can make a difference, and I don't just mean through individual change.
Is that even remotely true? Where is your evidence for that? Are you just cherry picking anecdata?
I've seen thousands marching for climate change recently, I've seen numerous local/state governments in the USA fighting hard, not to mention numerous friends who have adopted low-carbon behaviors specifically due to climate change. There is far from loss of hope here, there is a lot of emotion: anger, shame, incredulity, depression, but there's a lot of motivation and optimism too.
One of the biggest effects I see is the cultural shift to accept living in a polluted world. People resign to accept it even though they can make a difference, and I don't just mean through individual change.